Mitch’s Blog

Tonight I met Allan DeKaye, one of the people who participated in my interview series. We’d talked on the phone before, but never met, mainly because he lives on Long Island, where I haven’t been in over 20 years, and I live here in the Syracuse area.
I always enjoy meeting and having time to [...]

Last week I wrote about the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. I just came upon this story concerning my favorite baseball player in history, Roberto Clemente, and his relationship with Dr. King, as well as his taking a major stance after his assassination that, unfortunately, not a single American born ballplayer took [...]

John Burns is a another member of the Professional Consultant’s Association, but we’re also both members of the Syracuse chapter of the American Society of Training and Development. I was always intrigued by his name and his business name, because the two aren’t related; talk about destiny!
1. What is Robert Burns Training?
Dr. John Burns, [...]

You’re probably asking what the heck a sneeze page is.
Sneeze pages are an accounting of blog posts that you want to always try to make available to your visitors. In essence, if you have written consistently on your blog for just a year, you have posts that most people are never going [...]

First, the previous two newsletters for your perusal are thus:
Moving Forward
Dr. King - The Final Speech
The most recent newsletter I just sent out about five minutes ago, and it touches upon the topic of this post in more of a diagnostic breakdown of his final speech. This post isn’t that, though; it’s more of [...]

I was introduced to Keith through a third party and have worked a couple of healthcare projects with him. I feel I have to specify that because he has lots of businesses, which you’ll note below. Keith is a world traveler, really the first one I’ve ever met, but he doesn’t go to [...]

Sometimes it takes a hammer to make someone do the right thing, and unfortunately, if you ask me, that’s the wrong reason.
In this case, I’m talking about Walmart and its reversal of what was initially a bad decision in trying to take back money it paid for a woman’s health care. The quick detail [...]

A few posts ago, I wrote something called Mitch’s List Is Coming; this is it. It’s a letter that’s gone out to all my friends and business associates, with an added twist for the blog of thanking people for good things that came my way in the past year. So, this is a [...]

I knew of Kim Bachstein way before I met her. At one point in my early consultancy I was reaching out to employment agencies just to let them know I was there for management training and executive coaching, and though we didn’t get to talk, one look at her picture and she was hard [...]

The February issue of Black Enterprise magazine had an interesting report on black board members of major corporations. I have to admit that I’ve never thought about how many black people might be on major corporate boards before, only looking at the sparsity of black CEOs, or minority CEOs for that matter, in the [...]