Provident Security is a successful Vancouver based security company that sets out to completely change the alarm business. In the article How to Turn an Industry on Its Head Become Masters of Delivering On Big Promises, Kevin Lawrence and I write about how Provident Security CEO Mike Jagger founded the company on the promise:
“We will be at the customer’s door within five minutes of an alarm going off — guaranteed.”
My son Allen and I sometimes go Geocaching. Geocachers leave hidden caches (there is almost certainly one near you) and then they publish the latitude and longitude of the cache, along with hints on how to find it. The photo above shows a magnetic lock box and the geocaching directions that we used to find it. If you have never geocached, you might think that knowing the latitude and longitude would guarantee that you could find the cache. This is rarely the case.
I have worked with computers since I was fifteen years old. I love working with them. Most of the time. In the picture above, I’m happily working on my HP/Compaq laptop. The latest in a long line of laptops I’ve owned. Yesterday, I wasn’t smiling.
One of the biggest transitions of my life was when I became owner of Robelle Solutions Technology. After having worked for the company for twelve years, I bought out Annabelle (the “belle” in Robelle). I became President and was responsible for all company administration, in addition to my CTO responsibilities.
I recently read The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles Of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success And Performance At Work by Shawn Achor. After a decade of living, researching, and teaching…