Mitch's Blog

I was informed by a good friend of mine that today is Blog Day nationwide.  The idea is that those of us who write blogs should try to recommend 5 other blogs for our readers to check out. So, in the spirit of things, and eliminating any of my personal friends from the list, let’s [...]

I read this wonderful motivational blurb today on a business networking page. I knew that person didn’t write it, so I went searching for it, and found it on a page called MoreBusiness.com. It was written by a gentleman named Dr. Paul Allen, and it’s called Twelve Affirmations of Success. This is great for anyone [...]

There’s a new movie out called World Trade Center. Channels such as A&E and the History Channel are presenting many shows on different aspects of what happened on that day, and subsequently. At the same time, every day another American gets killed or kidnapped in Iraq or Afghanistan, and ends up with their face splashed [...]

Use of the term not being one of my favorites, there was a story on today’s CNN Money regarding the main reason of employee dissatisfaction, that being working for bad bosses. Check it out, as it’s something I’ve been saying for years, and now here’s a little bit of confirmation.

The way most of us who do seminars on diversity approach the subject is from the point of view that people are people, regardless of the differences in their backgrounds, and that we all must at least give consideration to those facts so that we can treat each other fairly in this world. Though that’s [...]

I came across an online entry titled Another Support Call Nightmare. In this case, the writer is talking about a bad experience he had in trying to talk to customer service people for a particular bank, and how bad he felt it was overall. What I found most interesting wasn’t the story so much, but [...]

In healthcare these days, the big talk seems to be towards the concept of what’s known as pricing transparency. Basically, this says that hospitals should be posting their prices for services such as x-rays, lab tests, surgeries, etc. There is a good reason and history why this wasn’t done in the past. For one, hospitals [...]

I remember reading an article in Discover Magazine from a couple of years ago where there was a story on brain patterns and the speed of thinking. The person who the story was about, Dr. Antonio Damasio (department head of neurology at the University of Iowa), made some interesting statements that worked to explain how [...]