My son had one of the leads in his high school musical this weekend, Into the Woods, a Stephen Sondheim musical that intertwines several Brother Grimm fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk (my son’s role), Rapunzel, and Cinderella. What does this have to do with our business lives? Alot…
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Well it is finally election day here in the USA. Finally and not a moment too soon. I do not think I could take another week of ads blitzing me where ever I go and I am from Illinois, Obama Country. I can only image what it is like in one of those swing […]
We are constantly told that we need to balance our personal and professional lives. Forget about it! In my mind, in the world of endless connectivity with my iPhone always in my pocket, this idea is simply ridiculous. There is no way this can be done. This is not to say that we can’t have […]
Last night, I completed something I had been preparing for 6 years. I tested for my brown belt in Seido Karate. At 48 years old, as I advance in this art form, it becomes more demanding physically and more challenging emotionally. After the 3 hour test of performing various techniques, fighting, rolling, falling and breaking boards, you […]
I got a letter from the IRS today. Correspondence from government agencies makes us all nervous. It was about the status of my “Economic Stimulus Payment”- You know the tax rebate that the government gave this year to help boost the economy? I got a kick out of the envelope that it came in. It […]
I am becoming more of a documentary fan. Recently, I watched Seth Gordon’s King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. It is about people that try to set records of old style video games that I grew up on. Once upon a time, these games only appeared in bars, restaurants and arcades as stand […]