I read an article the other day of reasons to hire people older than yourself. It was written by David Brown, founder and co-CEO of Techstars. He hits the benefits of hiring mature, skilled personnel nicely in his article.
He focuses on the hiring of full time older people. His three points hit the mark but …
Oscar Wilde penned a farcical comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”, where the focus is to maintain a fictitious persona to escape the burdens of social obligations.
In today’s business world of trying to establish meaningful business relationships, Wilde’s characters behaviour is the antithesis of what we need to do. We need to focus on …
Today, I was reading a article on Inc.com and found a link to a short video titled 7 Lessons Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Other Entrepreneurs Learned From Their Fathers .
The video caused me to pause and reflect on the biggest life lessons from my own father…
There were the basic ones, always be truthful and always be …
I was scanning through some TED talks, and I found a presentation by British writer and comedian James Veith. The segment caused many a chuckle and a few outright guffaws. So this post is meant mostly for entertainment value.
Although I highly recommend watching his talk, I would definitely not endorse following in his footsteps, …
Have you ever thought how you can get more bang for your buck?
Too many times I’ve gone into an organization who is banged and bruised from making market error after market error, asked the same question and received the same answer, “No, we don’t have a plan.” The reason they give me, generally speaking, is they don’t have time to sit and plan; they have to …
Depending on when you read this you may never know, but this blog post is late by a couple of days. So was the last one. The justification, or so I tell myself, was that I am too busy with other obligations to get it done on time.
After saying this to myself, I realized …
When you look at the many rules of business, how do you prioritize which are most important? When you have meetings with staff, managers, suppliers and customers how do you get through the current meeting and to the next meeting? What is the most important rule to use for meetings?
Where do you focus when …
