How to be successful AND stay married

I’m a huge fan of Inc. Magazine.  I love two things about it.  First, it just works – the magazine is laid out intelligently, offers great content and just looks good.  More importantly, and the real reason I’m such a fan, is the real-world context that permeates almost all of the articles, whether written by [...]


Just in Time – Destressing the holidays

One of the “rules” I always read relevant to professional blogging is to subscribe to lots of blogs that stretch you in different directions, or you just find interesting.  I follow that rule, and one of the blogs I follow is called Simple Mom.  Her blog’s tagline (I assume “her”, but these days who knows) [...]


All shapes and sizes…

I just got home from dinner with some friends of mine.  I’ve known this couple for quite a few years.  They are both wonderful people, some of the best I know, and a great match for each other.  And, as it just dawned on me tonight, very successful entrepreneurs. The husband currently manages a portfolio [...]


Progress?

A friend of mine, Mark Pinto, is an example of a person whose destiny was probably foretold from the day he was born.  So visual and creative he can’t eat lunch with you without doodling on the napkin, Mark runs a successful consulting business providing “graphic facilitation” to clients, helping them with issues ranging from [...]


Essential qualities of entrepreneurship – ver. 1

Okay, time for you all to speak up and tell me what you think.  After taking my own notes as to the qualities I think are essential for entrepreneurship, I posted a question on the topic over at LinkedIn’s Q&A section and got some great additional feedback.  So in this post, I will quickly outline [...]