Read Larry Pino’s Other Views My Word article in today’s Orlando Sentinel entitled: Orlando’s renaissance: Join in community building. For those of us who call Central Florida home, the past three years can be heralded as having laid a spectacular cornerstone for Orlando’s emerging renaissance. While monitoring some recent articles, it occurred to me it [...]

I’m attaching an article from the front page of The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, January 24th, reporting on Bill Gates and his call for a kinder form of capitalism. Apparently, Bill Gates will be delivering a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for the purpose of addressing how companies can combine [...]

I wrote an article in October 1996. It was called Lifestyle Inertia, and it suggested what I would consider to be one of the major impediments to positive change in somebody’s life. I acknowledge it here specifically because I wanted you to take a look at that particular article. Of all the articles I wrote, [...]

Janet and I went to see Riverdance the other night, and I was sitting there about 10 minutes when certain observations came up for me that I wanted to share with you. If you’ve never seen Riverdance, it was one of those incredible and novel sensations choreographed to make a big splash on Broadway. It [...]

We recently held our company picnic. We “Dynetechers” gather together in a relaxed, celebratory environment several times each year. An incident took place at our picnic this year that was an inspiration to many of us and gave us an opportunity to reexamine our values and the values of those around us. I share it [...]

I’m including an article which appeared in the January 10th issue of The Wall Street Journal about the Human Development Index (HDI), which measures education, life expectancy and economic output, as opposed to the GDP, which measures conventional gross domestic product. The article goes on to indicate that French President Sarkozy has commissioned those same [...]

Virtually every human interaction requires a payoff of some type. It doesn’t really matter what it is, it still requires a payoff. Whether it’s a piece of work for an incentive called a salary. Or it’s some type of conditional or contingent performance which gets rewarded based on result. Or it’s exposure to the powerful [...]

Community reflects a deep connection with others in a conscious commitment to a shared ideal. If we take a look at what we are experiencing here in Central Florida, it represents the ideal of a world-class living experience that rivals those icons which have gone before us. Whether it’s a 13th century Milan or a [...]

For what I call the meritocracy of achievers, camaraderie is more an issue of understanding and communicating with each other. It is appreciation for what the achievers are and do and less on doing business together or prospecting for any particular agenda. Original writing date: May 3, 2007

I write for my own satisfaction. Whether it’s about business, life or general philosophy, I write incessantly and am happy to publish my thoughts for whatever benefit they may provide. I am gratified to live a life in which I do not have to support myself by books, articles or publications. I simply write for [...]