Image Separation! It took four hours and a few minutes. After that I watched 8 thirty-gallon garbage sacks ride away in a car never to return again. They were from a pile called “Donations.” The four hours and few minutes weren’t at all what I expected. I had spent them with a love...

As much as I love the convenience of online shopping, information and service, there are certain services that must be provided by humans, whether in-person or remotely. And my question is: are the hours that these services are provided a matter of provider convenience, or intended to be convenient ...

Barry Moltz comments on Acco Brands, which cut its staff’s pay by 47% to shore up its corporate results: Cutting employees pay is never a good business strategy. If your company needs to cut employee expenses, you need to cut people not payroll. In my businesses, I have done it both ways. I ha...

These are hard times that definitely need catalysts for change. Drought and hunger stalk the nation. Schoolchildren are being sacrificed......

Marshawn Evans NBC "The Apprentice" • Lawyer • Miss America Finalist As one of the nation’s leading experts on the art of maximizing human potential, Entertainment Attorney MARSHAWN EVANS is Founder of MEU Consulting, a corporate life-enrichment consulting firm focusing on peak performance, di...

The short message service (SMS) and email may have changed the way we communicate with our friends, family, colleagues and......

In working with a client recently, we had a discussion about some tension with her non-ADD business partner. "It's just that she always does such a half-assed job," the client said. "I'm busting my butt and she's hardly trying." In fact, this client does work really hard. Too hard. She gets caught u...

Last week, in a conversation called Traffic, Readers, and Colleagues — Are They Customers? I asked how you might help a new blogging business connect to customers in the offline world. A comment by SpaceAgeSage was so packed with ideas, that I asked if she might package them up, elaborate a bi...

Publishing and Business Make Sense Together When the meeting at Cass Business School at City U had wrapped up, we collected our stuff and headed over to the British Telecom Building to meet with JP Rangaswami. I’ve been a fan of his blog, “Confused of Calcutta,” for close to a year...

I attended the AD/HD Coaches Organization annual conference last week and I thought it might be helpful to post my 'lessons learned,' especially as they relate to my earlier posts on 'business travel and ADD." Lessons Learned: Do NOT tell clients I'll be available via email. I had some problems with...