Mitch's Blog

I came upon a blog post by a guy named Kevin Eikenberry titled What’s Your Excuse. He talks about how, when Martin Luther King, Jr, was in school, he actually got a C in public speaking, and how he obviously didn’t let it stop him from achieving great things. Reading it first reminded me of [...]

I have a few blogs that I write on that rarely pertain to this business blog. One of them has to do with my push towards becoming a millionaire, which I wrote about once here also. What I’m referencing now goes back to a recent post there that I wrote on learning how to sell, [...]

By now, most of us have heard the story of how the airline AirTran removed a family from one of their airplanes because their 3 year old was throwing a tantrum and wouldn’t calm down. At the risk of taking an unpopular stance, I’m going to say I agree with the airlines, though I don’t [...]

Have you ever had the feeling that there’s one person who just doesn’t like you for some reason? Where you get that feeling that this other person seems to act as if you’re not in their league, or that you have nothing to contribute to the conversation, or that they wish you had never been [...]

I went to a one hour leadership seminar today, that was put on by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. The presenter, Bart Murphy of Ahern, Murphy & Associates, at some point asked people to yell out qualities they believed would be ideal in quality leaders. The crowd yelled out words like courage, risk taker, honesty, [...]

Not that this blog has ever gotten a lot of comments, but now, if you wish to, you can subscribe to comments on any topic you want to see, or that you comment on. I’ve been hoping for a plug in that would do that, and now I’ve got it. So, there you go; enjoy [...]

Something most managers hate to do is evaluate either their employees, or themselves. Managers who aren’t comfortable telling employees negative things about their employees really hate when it’s time for employee evaluations. Other managers usually hate it also because they haven’t cared enough to remember much of what most of their employees have done throughout [...]

The cartoon The Boondocks had an episode on the Cartoon Network last year where, instead of Martin Luther King, Jr being assassinated, he was greatly injured and was in a coma for almost 20 years, coming out of it and having to look at the world that he may have helped to create. He wasn’t [...]

I thank my friend Shirley Frazier, who wrote on her blog, Solo Business Marketing, about the Harvard Business Review Magazine. She was talking about one article in particular, but as I looked at the page, I was impressed by a great many of the articles on leadership and other topics. Of course there are caveats. [...]

We’re 12 days into the new year, and it’s already proven to be a year like, and unlike, other years. I begin the year at home, which hasn’t happened in a couple of years. I know, at some point, I’ll probably be off to some odd location or two, but it would be nice if, [...]