Mitch's Blog

One of the services I provide in my business is as an executive and business coach. I wrote about it on this blog in the link above; the link on my website talking about coaching can be found here. However, much as I’d like to think otherwise, I can’t be all things for all people. [...]

With all the bad stuff that’s come out lately about leaders of some companies, it was interesting to come across a post on a blog called Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy, called Leadership Scruples; What Would You Do? He came up with 20 questions to test every person’s morality and ethics by answering just what [...]

There were three big news stories in the last couple of days that are just depressing in the area of leadership. The first involves two Pennsylvania judges, who agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges accusing them of taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders into certain detention facilities. One of [...]

A few days ago, I wrote about my feelings regarding the inauguration of President Obama. I was feeling really good that day, and for the next couple of days I felt pretty good also. Then certain things started happening that made me take pause, get upset, then have to come to some realities. Not everyone [...]

I’m more of a charitable guy than I let on to most of my friends. The reason is that I like to give when I can, and give whatever I can, and sometimes I like to spread it around. Most of the time, when I go to the grocery store, I’ll pull off one of [...]

By now, many of you know that I do some affiliate internet marketing through a couple of different blogs and some other websites. It’s pretty much a hobby, one that I have some fun with, but I’m not overly successful at it thus far. Living in New York state, there is a new challenge where [...]

I have a “new” friend that’s just gone into a hospice, and the prognosis is that she probably won’t be with this world within the next 60 days. I’m really sad about this, even though I never met her in person, but at the same time I recognize the kind of pain she’s been in [...]

Today is the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America. It follows the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, which I wrote about yesterday. Today, I don’t have a lot of words to say, because it’s not really about me today, although it is about me. [...]

What a special year this is for America, and minorities in general. Tomorrow will be the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first person of color, and ironically it comes the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday. Back on the day after Mr. Obama was elected, I posted a video that had Sam [...]

I met Robert Whipple at a meeting of my consultant’s group, Professional Consultant’s Association of Central New York, and it turned out that we shared some similar business interests. His third book is due out some time later this year, and last fall he was named one of the top 100 thought leaders in the [...]