I can’t help but wonder, as I sit in on President Obama’s performance,  listen to the escalating rhetoric fired at BP and witness the massive attempts to CYA on behalf of countless government officials, whether the spill has tested our limits of what government can do and should not dare to do. Let me explain. Two [...]

I’ve never been able to abide individuals who, when you are talking to them one-on-one, appear so unbelievably committed. Indeed, they are actually passionate about what they are saying and, on a one-on-one basis, they exude the highest level of credibility and reliability. And then, you leave the meeting, encounter, Starbuck’s coffee, or otherwise, with the [...]

Take a look at the little clip that I attached from an old episode of Petticoat Junction a friend of mine sent me a short while ago. I hadn’t thought of Petticoat Juncton for decades, to put it mildly. However, I remember it so very well today. I remember convincing Mom and Dad from time [...]

You know, for the longest time, I simply published to the blog.  I didn’t treat it as an interactive communciation.  And I didn’t even check what was written. Now that I continue to look at it…and interestingly, for every one comment I get directly on LifeInBusiness, I get anywhere from 25 to 50 private or personal messages. A [...]