Bold language may illumine with lightning’s brilliance, but it can also scorch with lightning’s shock. Recently, I saw a memo from a manager to his department members who were exploiting the use of company-issued mobile phones a little too freely. Too often, employees could not reach one another for business purposes because personal use of [...]
I was asked to speak at a small business event about Entrepreneurship: Are You Ready? My experience in working with Small Business Development organizations and projects and doing consulting and training for Woman/Minority Owned Businesses has shown me that when people talk about becoming (or being) an entrepreneur they primarily mean they want to start [...]
You’ve probably heard the saying “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” The idea is that something valuable shouldn’t be discarded in your eagerness to get rid of something useless associated with it. While in the business world this often makes sense, there are situations where you really should throw the baby out – [...]
Unemployed workers, both professional and hourly, want jobs. But even when jobs are available, many people don’t know how to find them. See what Jenny Munro, of the Greenville News has to say about this week’s event where we try to help job seekers maximize their efforts online and off. Read the article: Greenville News Learn more [...]
A pharmacy and a physician say they didn’t intend to upset anyone when their group handed out prescription bottles filled with candy during Ripley, W.Va.’s Fourth of July parade. I’m sure it felt like a good promotional idea when the pharmacist ordered promotional pill bottles from an online distributor. Unfortunately, there was no personal interaction [...]
Although science has since come to understand that his list of needs isn’t a true hierarchy (people often pursue these needs simultaneously), one thing Maslow did have right is that people do have basic desires. And people are very much emotionally connected to these desires.
In a challenging economy where wallets are tighter and people are traveling less, social media applications are a new means for artists to connect with the masses. As an artist consultant and creative coach, I am advising my clients to spend some time plugged in each day to stay connected with an ever expanding online [...]
It’s that time when we all tend to do some self-evaluation and consider what we want to accomplish in the coming year. It’s very common to make resolutions for personal growth. I think it’s important to set goals or resolutions for your business and parts of your business too! The following resolutions play off of [...]
The epic collapse of Lehman Brothers’ marked a stunning turning point in the financial markets from which Wall Street is still recovering. When investors woke up on Monday, September 15, the landscape had totally changed: Lehman Brothers was bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was sold, and the credit markets – which had been improving after Bear Stearns’ [...]
I recently began reading a book by an author I had heard of but whose work I was unfamiliar with. About 35 pages into the novel I stumbled upon a cluster of paragraphs which I found profoundly intriguing. In this part of the book, science fiction writer Kilgore Trout just received an invitation to speak [...]
