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). Continue reading
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More Twitter
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. Continue reading
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Emperors And Their Outfits
Everyone has run into an emperor at some point. You know – the person who lords over his or her minions and possesses infallibility in all things both work and life related. So here is the question with which we start the week. Are you the tailor or are you the kid? Continue reading
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