The other day, I blogged about the desire, in the future, to provide daily P&L statements as part of the daily Flash Report I receive each morning. I received several comments, both on an off the blogsite, numerous emails, and (interestingly enough),  more visits than I had ever received to any single blog, although I’m not [...]

Interestingly enough, the bleak situation in Greece has diverted attention somewhat from the recession and focused it instead on the overall role of debt at the governmental level. The European Union (EU), sharing a common currency (Euro), in conjunction with other international funding sources like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be required to pony up a [...]

I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally neutral. But, I do have to say, that my fundamental bias away from judgment and towards observation was severely strained as [...]

You know, the greatest pain for me…was the loss of associates…many of whom had been with me for a decade or more.  We had the opportunity, at a prior time, to shut down the entire Orlando seminar operation and to operate the very profitable WizeTrade division we had built exclusively out of Dallas. We could have maintained [...]

I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in civilian life, and went back into the military with my mom, the first Italian war bride. He spent the next 20 [...]

So my 6th grader and I were taking a bath together a few nights ago and he asked me to help him on a project. “Dad, if you had to boil down to two reasons why Rome fell when they were at the height of power, what would you say?” I was freshly off of reading the news [...]

I was shooting hoops earlier this evening. We had just finished off a Halloween party with the kids and parents on the block. It was great fun. The rest of the parents headed across the street from us to our friends and neighbors to roast S’mores. I stayed behind to shoot some hoops on our [...]

I was watching a special on Edward Albee, the relatively famous still-living playwright who, among other things, brought us Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? It was some type of Tony presentation in Washington, D.C., on his life and achievements. President and Mrs. Clinton were there. Al and Tipper Gore were there. Countless dignitaries from D.C. [...]

He’s only four and half years old, but he knows it too well. Whether you are four or 40, it simply makes too much sense. He came to the table with Capri Sun juice. “This is really good, Daddy!” I said, “I’m sure it is, sweetie pie. But look outside.” “I know, I know. It’s [...]

As a lawyer, I always billed by the hour. That was my entire framework. I used to work with somebody, and simply identify, in absolute terms, whether I’d spent 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes or an hour, on whatever they were doing. In a very real sense, it was productivity by the hour. Of [...]