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Lessons From The Middle East
For the past few weeks I have been transfixed on what has occurred in Egypt and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East. In looking at the demonstrations and ensuing chaos, I’m very grateful to be living in the USA.
Read More...Business Rules?
I read an article recently about humorist Rube Goldberg who once asked of his business friends “Do you fellas have a lot of unbreakable rules?”. In today’s business environment the answer would seem to be “What rules?” Today the first rule seems to be ”look out for number one” or “I got mine, now I’m looking [...]
Read More...TailGate Party anyone? A creative job that’s fun.
Football is finally over! At times it seemed like the football season would never end and yet it now it seems like the season went by at a record pace. Whenever I attend a game, my wife and I always plan on getting to the game a couple of hours early and tail gate with friends.
Read More...Filling Those Retirement Years.
There are many articles written about having enough money to live comfortably well into our retirement as well as about finding something meaningful to do after we retire.
Read More...Build Relationship, Increase Business and Profits
I once had a client that had a client list to die for. Companies such as:Boeing, So Cal Edison, LA Unified School district, Jet Propulsion Labratory, Lockheed Martin to name just a few, were part of her client list. Yet inspite of this impressive client base she was always coming to me asking how she [...]
Read More...Life Tough? Make it Better in 2011
In the 1950′s there was a popular rock n’ roll song called Life. It’s opening lyrics went something like this: “What’s life? A magazine How much does it cost? It costs 20 cents But I only have a nickel. Aw Aw that’s tough” Indeed life can be tough. Has life in 2010 been tough for you? [...]
Read More...You’re Only Old Once!
As part of my new year’s resolutions I began cleaning some old books off my shelves when I came across a book by Dr. Suess that my daughter gave me for Christmas a number of years ago.
Read More...LeftHanders – A Business Opportunity?
It’s the beginning of another year and so I thought about writing on something that, in my mind anyway, gets very little attention – lefthanders. Why, because I’m partially lefthanded (my teachers couldn’t get it all out of me) and I wanted to write a different blog.
Read More...Rich Verses Greed
In this day and age we hear so much about greed on Wall Street, in corporate America, and even in politics that one wonders is anyone honest. Is business in America about how much I can get? On the other hand, is getting rich bad, and nothing but greed?
Read More...Are you an “Inner Artist” prospect?
In the The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2010 I read an article entitled “Finding Your Inner Artist”. The article was about three individuals who found new and renewed passions after they left the workplace.
Read More...Big ideas and plus 50
Muzak – George Owen Squier; Assembly line – Henry Ford; Electric Razor – Jacob Schick; Helicopter – Igor Sikorsky; Parking meter – Carl Magee; Microwave oven – Percy Spencer; Communications satellite – John Robinson Pierce. All these people were fifty plus when their inventions became successful
Read More...Helpful Business Cards and Napkins
In meeting people how often do we really stop and think how relevant is this person to me. Does the person work for a company that provides a goods or service that interests me or I can use? Are they involved with a new technology I can learn?
Read More...Two Wolves
Recently one of my students handed me an old Cherokee story that I thought has many applications to business and life. I think this is a great story about ethics, and “doing the right thing”, so I wanted to share it with you.
Read More...Stress and Service Clubs
Stress is insidious.Many people say they strive on it, but daily high stress activities do create burnout, or worse the opportunity to make mistakes or bad business choices. A recent article in AARP cited one of the primary ways to combat this problem is stay connected or involved.
Read More...Failure
Twyla Tharp, once told an interviewer ” If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won’t fail. You’ll just stagnate and your work will get less and less interesting, and that’s failure by erosion. True failure is a mark of accomplishment in the sense that something [...]
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