I’m not sure if you read this article from yesterday’s New York Times. Very enlightening. It speaks of parents who take their kids to college and then stick around, sometimes for days. As someone who has been through this process – twice – I can tell you that it’s awful. Leaving the person you’ve protected since birth hundreds of miles away with strangers is a frightening, difficult event. I still refer to the first time as one of the worst days of my life and the second time was a little easier only because the school is only 90 minutes away (and I can do it in 60 if I don’t mind a couple of tickets). So why should you care? Because it affects you if you hire any young people. Continue reading
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These Got Me Wondering
What if you made a product that was wildly popular but your business wasn’t set up to make any money off of it? Suppose that millions of consumers were using what you made but because they were doing so in a manner different from what you had built your business to support, you were going bust? I think you know where I’m heading with this but let’s just make sure. Continue reading
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The Times They Are…
I read a couple of things with interest this morning. One confused me, one made absolute sense. I thought I’d let you come to your own conclusions. The first has to do with fighting city hall (OK, actually fighting some big changes) and the second shows what a business can do when it changes the paradigm a bit and gets with the program. Everyone ready? Continue reading
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