Have you heard that Facebook has made it easier to find you on the web? If you act quickly, you may get a unique URL with your name or with the main benefit of your business.
(If you registered for Facebook before 6/9/09, you are eligible. Those who have registered after that date will soon be [...]

There are times when we all must hunker down and crank to produce something important. During pedal to the metal times, it is important to focus your effort and energy like a laser beam. After years of being disorganized (e.g., papers, and books everywhere), I’ve finally learned that being organized brings clarity and clutter helps [...]

During the 1970s when I worked for the government in Washington DC, I shared a group house with Al Herter.  Al is a self-made millionaire and successful investor, and is called “the hippie philanthropist”.
Al mastered the art of living comfortably on a small budget. By living simply and following the Quaker philosophy, he became financially [...]

Today tens of thousands of New Yorkers were thoroughly frightened as two Air Force jets and Air Force One flew as low as 150 feet over Lower Manhattan. Frightened calls from residents clogged the emergency lines, many office buildings were evacuated as panicked workers with memories of 9/11 scrambled downstairs.
But this was an authorized photo [...]

In the state I live in, if I want to pay to get a haircut, I have to go to a licensed cosmetologist at a place of business who has been trained to cut hair.
In contrast, if I want to hire a strategic planner for business or personal planning, I can hire anyone—whether or not [...]

When I first saw those red buttons that Staples® sells with the white letters that spells “easy,” I thought those were so “silly.” Until recently, that is.
I found myself procrastinating on a file that mounted in my head as being an enormous task. One of the hardest parts was to just get started—and once I [...]

 
 
These days, the customer is more empowered than at any time in history. The driving force behind this shift has been the accelerating movement towards online business. While competing for customer loyalty in today’s market is essential to survival, it seems ironic that many businesses which form strategic alliances are creating shared customer loyalty.

In a [...]

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and confused while listening to the huge figures being anted up to stimulate the economy, keep people in their homes, and save multiple industries – banking and automobiles for starters.
Here’s the critical bottom-line question “What are these government stimulus investments going to cost me and my family?” Actually, it’s quite [...]

I’m proud as a pup with a new collar to announce that my latest book Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams, published by John Wiley & Sons, hit the book market this month. It’s my best work ever and is already getting rave reviews because the ideas work!
If you’ve attended [...]

We all mess up at one time or another—or many times, rather. Whether the mess up was avoidable, or not, what’s important is being willing to stand up and accept responsibility when you made a mistake. That’s the mark of a confident leader.
Our new president gave a splendid example when he picked Tom Daschle for [...]