Mitch’s Blog

One thing I hate about business is that many people don’t feel they have to return phone calls, or respond to email.
Now, if someone is just soliciting, whether or not the other person knows them or not, that’s a much different thing, because if someone is trying to sell you something that you [...]

I mentioned this website, Beautiful Summer Morning, on my Blog Day post in August. This guy, Nick Grimshawe, really does come up with some very good stuff.
Two videos have been highlighted on his site within the past couple of weeks that I’d like to share with you now. The first is [...]

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine got tossed from one of the social networking sites I’m a part of. She basically got herself banned for protecting her very good name, but going a couple more steps forward than she really needed to.
As we were talking on the phone about it later [...]

Here’s a tough one to think about.
I’m reading a news story a few days ago about the Swedish cartoonist who drew a picture of Allah as a dog and created all the firestorm and controversy that came afterwards from Muslims, who decided that this man needed to have a price on his head, and a [...]

Over the last two days I’ve gone to some local business events, and decided I wanted to write about them a little bit.
It started yesterday morning with a seminar being put on by the Syracuse chapter of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), of which I’m a local member. The topic was [...]

First, the latest newsletter, We Gotta Talk, on diversity, is out.
I was greatly disappointed last week when Marion Jones came out and admitted to using steroids after all these years. After years of denials, her coming out, with tears, and pleading guilty, was quite a shock and stunner to me.
Still, I can understand why [...]

A friend turned me on to this little video called Five Big Questions, which is associated afterwards with an ecourse by a gentleman named Michael Bungay Stanier. It’s a pretty neat little video, backed up with what I call bebop jazz, a little long, but very worth watching because it’ll make you think about [...]