One of my favorite books of all time is The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. I was listening to the audiobook version again the other night. One of the breakthroughs for me was their discussion of how high-net-worth people are often entrepreneurs who apply lessons from their businesses to their […]
A few years ago, I was on vacation in Santa Monica, CA. If you’re like me, it takes you a few days to relax (and then, of course, it’s time to go home, but I digress …). I was sitting by the pool a few days in feeling VERY relaxed. “Why am I feeling so good?” […]
The saga of embattled New York mayoral candidate and former US Congressman Anthony Weiner has been chronicled minute by minute in print, online and on broadcast news channels. While sex-related scandals involving politicians seem as old as politics itself, the story of Weiner’s sexting (most recently with Sydney Leathers) has a lesson for leaders in […]
After surveying 280 firms, totaling over 246,000 employees, Fortune Magazine named the top 100 companies to work for in 2012. What do the top employers have in common? A few things; child care, encouraging environments throughout the employee ranks, and health program opportunities (ranging from on-site gyms, massages, acupuncture, free access to nutritional foods, to […]
Six methods of persuading others that can radically boost your ability to lead others and get things done.
Research has shown that measuring something is the start of improving it, and this post explains how you can apply that to everything from making a cup of coffee to radically improving your professional performance.
Have you ever been delightfully surprised by someone? I was several years ago, and I still remember it clearly. A friend of mine was looking to sell his house. I referred him to a friend of mine, Lisa, who is a real estate broker. Ultimately, he didn’t use Lisa to sell his house, but the […]
Best-selling business author Harvey Mackay wrote an excellent piece in his “Swim with the Sharks” column in July 13-19 issue of the Philadelphia Business Journal about delegation Entitled, “When You Delegate, You Elevate,” it’s a commonsense look at (a) why it makes solid business sense to delegate, and (b) how to do it. Of course […]
In one of the more memorable scenes (of many) in the movie Jerry Maguire, Jerry stays up all night in a hotel room writing his “manifesto.” It’s all the things he thinks about business and taking care of customers that he thinks no one talks about. He titles his piece “The Things We Think But […]
The furor over the recent practice of some public and private companies requesting social media passwords of job applicants reached Capitol Hill this past week, as lawmakers questioned whether this violates Federal law. According to a New York Times article, Facebook has already said it violates their own policies related to the sharing of passwords. […]
