While scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed, I saw a post from one of my friends that caught my eye. “Family game night tonight. Yea!” I glanced over at the calendar making sure I was still in 2012 and hadn’t slipped back into some sort of time warp. In the age of Angry Birds, Cut the [...]

After yesterday’s post about a former Goldman Sachs executive’s op-ed piece in The New York Times, I received a lot of email from readers who took the “fill-in-the-blanks test.” One of the emails I received showed that the problems Greg Smith pointed out don’t just exist in big, powerful corporations. They exist in businesses of [...]

When was the last time you’ve seen an executive of a company the size of Goldman Sachs criticize his/her former employer in a major newspaper like The New York Times? Greg Smith, an executive director and head of Goldman Sachs United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, did just that [...]

Every now and then I get an email that prompts a blog post and in my mailbox this morning was one of them. With the permission of the emailer, I’m answering it here in the hopes my advice can help more than just the gal I’ll call Ethel. “I have a small eCommerce store that [...]

While doing my usual Facebook stalking, I saw a photo posted by Delta Airlines that I had to re-share with those who stalk me. It was a picture of the airlines CEO, Richard Anderson, sitting with a reservations agent taking customer calls “in recognition of [their] great work.” I thought to myself, “How many CEO’s [...]

When I visited my office in Pennsylvania this week, I was on a mission to find something that I haven’t seen in a while but suddenly found myself in need of. I rummaged through my desk drawers looking for it, but only came up with stupid stuff like pet supply price books from 1997, a [...]

Being up in Scranton, PA for a few days, I heard a lot about this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. You see, Scranton is known for two things – being the unfortunate hometown of Joe Biden and their big St. Patrick’s Day Parade. I’m not a fan of either. Especially parades. Standing on a street [...]

I was a 17 year old high school kid when I first heard of Rush Limbaugh. I was making a whopping $5.50 an hour at the former WARD-AM in Pittston, PA when we were one of the first radio stations to carry the conservative talk show host when he went national on August 1, 1988. [...]

It started out as a speck of bone popping through my lower gum where one of my wisdom teeth used to reside. My dentist called it a “boney spicule.” I called it a pain in the ass. As this piece of dead bone made its way from where it spent the last 15 years untouched [...]

How well do you communicate with your employees? I’m not talking about walking around the office and saying hello. I’m talking about keeping them informed about what’s going on in the company, sharing important news about new products, talking about issues that may impact business and taking time to recognize those who have gone above [...]