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Tightrope walkers and small business owners
What’s the difference between tightrope walkers and small business owners? Not much!
Read More...The Odds Are In Your Favor!
Earthquakes in Japan, Volcano erupts in Ireland, Flooding throughout the Midwestern US, Wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico thousand are left homeless scream our headlines. Yet when you really stop to think about it, on a grand scale very few people are affected and more survive these events than don’t.
Read More...Yes…..but……
I have to defer to Mary Catherine Bates for this one. She posed that very statement in her book “Composing a further life”. All too often we “experts” will answer questions or comments from students or clients with “yes……..but……..” which implies we are about to modify, correct or in someway change the information being discussed. This [...]
Read More...Small Is Better?
I grew up in a world where BIG was better. The bigger something was the thinking went the better it had to be. But is that necessarily so?
Read More...Loose Ends
My wife and I have been going through old papers, photos and miscellaneous items of her parents both of whom have passed away in the last three years. Her mother was a special person in many ways; an author of many articles, a newspaper publisher, an amazing mentor to her daughter and a very unique [...]
Read More...Illness and your Business
This past week I had the misfortune of witnessing a good friend’s death (at 62); attending the funeral of a retired business owner; and hearing of the death of a relative. In addition, this year has been filled with similar news of friends and business acquaintances.
Read More...A Golf Saying For Business!
As a golfer I’ve learned many lesson on the course that I often apply to everyday life and business. Issues occur in both that we wish we could solve in “short order”. Having patience in dealing with these issues often causes stress as we would like to have them resolved ”yesterday”. Here’s a saying I [...]
Read More...Working Smart.
What happened to my daughter recently prompted this blog. A week ago, my daughter attended a meeting with her Director and collegues to review upcoming projects and receive assignments to manage those projects. She went into the meeting expecting to receive 5 or 6 projects and came out having received 16 projects to manage. Great for [...]
Read More...Customers, Depends on your perspective!
Each day, every one of us is on the receiving end of customer service. We may have been a customer, client, or guest in a restaurant, supermarket, bank, health club, gas station, retail outlet, business office or even someone’s home. And we all have, depending upon our perception, been the recipient of “good” or “bad ” service. As customers, [...]
Read More...Tech to do list
Teachparentstech.org is not just for parents, I should know. After reading about this site recently I thought I would check it out. I went to the site, checked on tracking a flight status and got a surprise.
Read More...Social Media – Humbug!
I admit, I’m old fashioned. This whole social media craze does nothing for me. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. may be the “hot way” for the younger set to communicate but I still prefer”pressing the flesh”.
Read More...What If?
I received a dreaded phone call this morning about a business acquantance who died last night of a sudden heart attack. In some respects it wasn’t a big surprise because the individual had suffered from heart problems for a number of years.
Read More...Sacrifice!
As I sometimes do (more often than I care to admit), I stopped in at the local bakery to get a cup of coffee and a bit of pastry plus the added bonus of being able to talk with the owner for a few minutes when the store is not busy.
Read More...Startup America Partnership
Recently it was announced that Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, was leading a new public-private partnership to help fund and support small business. Startup America Partnership is designed to promote entrepreneurship by bringing large and small businesses together for investing, education and mentoring.
Read More...Change your game?
Changeyourgame.com! What a great name for a website and it’s for real. Only problem is unless you are a golfer it’s not for you, but what a great idea. What if you could “change your game”? Just go to a website and get yourself changed.
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