How many of you can remember the old movie called Network, where the raving lunatic TV Broadcaster in an impassioned plea on the air urged people to go to the window and yell out into the streets of America: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!?” Well, ladies and gentlemen, […]
There is an expression in the computer world called GIGO — it stands for Garbage In-Garbage Out. It literally means that if you program garbage into your computer code, it is impossible to get anything out of it except garbage. You know, we all have a computer in our head, it’s called our brain. Think […]
I HEAR VOICES… Sometimes I hear voices! Oh, I’m not crazy – these aren’t voices that instruct me to do evil things or poison the city’s water supply or drive my car off a cliff. In fact, these are voices that I often recognize, I’ve heard them before, and are embedded in the memory bank […]
LET’S GET REAL… Let’s get real: Apart from sex, money is perhaps the most taboo topic there is! It makes people very uncomfortable, whether rich or poor, to speak about wealth. The poor and the middle-class don’t like to talk about it because they are embarrassed that they don’t have enough. The rich don’t like […]
Time is the only thing that is always working against your favor. Until someone figures out a way to slow it down or turn it back then our decisions in the here and now make implications towards a future. A future that will eat up more time than you might care to dedicate. As an entrepreneur, […]
Anyone who has run a small or large business for any time at all knows all about toxic employees. They are insidious, they cause disruption, lack of productivity and profits, they stir up the pot, seek allies among your good employees, they want to fashion your workplace where you are supposed to call the shots […]
Just a few years ago I sold a chain of highly successful early education private schools that my wife and I founded 15 years before and had grown to be among the most highly regarded schools of their type in the country. During that time we had the opportunity to observe thousands of parents, their […]
This week the Republicans meet in Cleveland to make it official that Donald J. Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be the nominees of the Republican Party for the highest offices in the land, the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the U.S. The Democrats will meet in Philadelphia in a couple of weeks and go […]
Several years ago I was invited by a friend to a very nice restaurant for an opportunity luncheon that he was organizing for a rather high-end Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) opportunity. I was busy, really had little interest in the opportunity myself, but I wanted to spend some time with my friend and help him out. I […]
The challenges of a startup varies at various levels. The challenges range from cash flows to family support to choosing the right investors when you are raising funds to just a simple one as to…”Hire the right set of people in your startup with the same passion.” You have a great idea. You have some […]
