Credibility

Balance

If you’ve been playing along with the home version of our game you know that I’ve been on a jury in a civil trial for the past couple of weeks.  The trial is over, the jury dismissed and so I’m able to write all about it, which I’m not going to do in great detail.  However, the basis upon which we rendered our verdict got me thinking and, of course, it became a decent business lesson. Read more »

Mom Talks Business

Mom out on the town

Mothers provide many interesting business lessons, don’t they? I’ll preface this by saying it was a little different 45 years or so ago when I was growing up in that mothers tended to do front-line discipline while fathers were court and, frequently, executioner of last resort.   Mothers dispensed pearls of wisdom in between the tears; fathers did the same in between removing their belts (that’s all tongue in cheek, mostly). Read more »

More Twitter

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I know I seem as if I’m spending an inordinate amount of time discussing Twitter in this space but I think that given the many changes it’s bringing (I’ll discuss in a sec), its worth the electrons.  After all, Twitter as a platform has changed the way that many people and businesses communicate.  It’s also become, frankly, my early warning system of news.  Michael Jackson and the plane in the Hudson are just two of the stories I picked up on Twitter well before cable news or other outlets were on top of them. Read more »