A tip of my hat goes to Mike Brown ofProgressive Business Publications for the subject of this week’s post. Mike and I were on the phone Monday doing the preliminaries for a webinar I was delivering for his organization that day. During our call the conversation turned to my relatively slow acceptance of all things technical and Mike suggested that I acknowledge when I made “baby steps” and not worry about whether I might ever become an eager adopter like folks I seem to encounter at every turn.

As you of course know, great minds often laugh at the same jokes and Mike’s reference to “baby steps” led us quickly to a reflection on one of our mutually favorite comedy films, the 1991 ‘What About Bob’  with Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.  ‘Baby Steps’ was the title of the book published by the Dreyfuss character, Dr. Marvin, which he of course recommended to his patient Bob who was played by Bill Murray. So Mike and I had our little moment of Zen together that morning.

Later in the day I continued to reflect ...