Jim Murray

Post from Jim Murray

Somewhwere Along The Line

We all go through periods where we feel completely lost. It's part of growing up and growing into whatever it is you were meant to be. I went through that and though it was desolate and painful, I came through the other side of it a better person, at least I think I did. This is ...

Good People find a way...

During one of my professional "iterations" there was a complete executive retooling within the organization and with it came a number of very capable business people... you know, the people that have Harvard, Wharton or General Electric somewhere on their resume; the type of peop ...

Why 'Calling Bullshit On BeBee Is Something We Should All Get Good At

You don’t notice it so much here on BeBee, (at least not yet), but on other so called social media sites, there is a preponderance of people who are basically full of shit. · I know this because sometimes I am one of them. LOL. And it sometimes takes one to know one. · These peop ...

Observing

When I look at branding, selling, social media and marketing etc it is through the orange lens.  Ironically BeBee's colour happens to orange so I will paraphrase the scene in Good Will Hunting "How do you like them Oranges" We are so ingrained by this word "follower" that we don' ...

Good Lessons from Experience

We were sitting after golf and the conversation drifted around to stories about how we had learned our craft, (most of us it turned out learned the hard way). One of the younger teachers told this story. · "I was instructing my Math 10 students in my portable on a rather stormy a ...