The recent shooting at an office complex in Phoenix, where a man involved in a mediation meeting shot and killed the other party in the dispute and shot and killed one of the attorneys, reminds us again that lawyers and their clients can be put at lethal risk by angry current or former clients. Similar recent shootings at courthouses in Delaware and South Carolina demonstrate that court cases or the courthouses where they start and finish can be emotional places.

First I’d like to share with you the story of a client company that is in the midst of a four-year contract. I am on-site with them twice a month. Every month there are goals set for the sales department and everyone is aware of those goals and what the percentage is because the company does a fabulous job of reporting to their salespeople: they use an 84-inch monitor that, and at any moment in time, the salespeople, the operations people, and the executive team can look up at and see what the numbers are.

How much would it be worth to you to discover your true life purpose? What if you could translate that life purpose into a LIFETIME of professional PASSION and a perpetual pile of profit to go with it? The good news is, you CAN.

Wisdom is the appropriate application of knowledge, which is the systematic organization of information, which is the understanding of data. In this article, I examine the importance of observational knowledge. This might be the single most profitable way of learning. The correct understanding and application of this form of learning will assist you in finding your niche.