Mitch’s Blog

In communities across the country, the police are fond of saying that racial profiling doesn’t exist, and that people are making it up because of their hate for the police. I know I’ve been pulled over a time or two when I was younger, but those days seem to have passed at this juncture.
Well, [...]

Yesterday I took my mother and grandmother to the Cheesecake Factory in the Rochester area because it’s become my mother’s favorite restaurant. It became my mother’s favorite restaurant once I introduced it to her back in March, so I knew she’s enjoy herself.
My initial thought was that I was beating the crowd in taking [...]

By now, everyone has heard about the incident in Philadelphia where 15 police officers pulled 3 black men from a building and started beating them without restriction. For once, it wasn’t just some guy standing on a corner filming it, but a news crew whose helicopter just happened to be flying overhead. At [...]

Many of us don’t think of it this way, but fear drives most of what we do in our careers. We get a job because we’re afraid we won’t be able to make it working on our own. We don’t take a lot of chances because we fair being rebuffed or making mistakes. [...]

Once again today, I received an email from someone who didn’t know me or my business offering to provide services to me. I don’t have a problem with this normally, because we all have to market our services in some fashion.
What I had a problem with, however, is that the services I was being [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it, but I have another blog that’s more for marketing and personal observations called I’m Just Sharing. I mention it because it gives a different perspective on things I think are either fun, troubling, important, or my just wanting to try to sell something.
What’s funny about this is [...]

I’m not the only one who’s ever asked this particular question, but it’s my first time doing it here: why do all those rappers look so mad?
Why? Because it helps them sell records, that’s why. Most of them really aren’t that mad at all; why should they be? Many of them [...]

By now, everyone knows that Microsoft has pulled its bid to purchase Yahoo totally off the table. At this point, Microsoft figures it will figure another way to make a dent into the online search market, hopefully finding a way to make its MSN Live search engine a real player in the market.
At this [...]

First, the latest TTM Consulting newsletter, Training Training Training, is available here. It was inspired by yesterday’s post on training, which makes sense.
I’ve been thinking about the Democratic primary process lately and wondering just what this type of thing seems to do to leadership. It seems that instead of the candidates being able [...]

I came upon a post on a blog called The Consumer Healthcare Blog titled 10 Ways To Fix Healthcare, a list culled from 10 experts, though I’m not sure who they are.
I wrote a message on the post, then I decided I wanted to think about it some more afterwards. There’s always this talk [...]