General Business

Last Friday I went to a seminar put on my my consulting group, the Professional Consultant’s Association of Central New York. It was a great presentation by a local guy named Nasir Ali on the topic of entrepreneurship in the 21st century and what Syracuse University and local businesses are doing to try to keep […]

I was reading an article written by a guy named Peter Vadja titled Is Self-Help Helping. His basic premise is that no self help books ever help anyone because for true change to occur, one has to dig deeper than any book can get you to do, thus you’re doomed to failure most of the […]

Every once in awhile you read something that hits you right and yet there’s not much you can do with it except think about it and share it. That’s pretty much what I’m doing here today, based off a post by a lady named Sharon Hayes called 7 Reasons Why I Can’t Do “Free”. In […]

I’ve had a number of conversations about different topics lately with different people. In each case though, the conversation turned to just who should be making the decisions on the particular issue. The problem in all cases was that the person that had been making decisions for either the departments or areas were people that […]

Around the end of December I had someone reach out to me to provide some services for their hospital. It sounded really good and I was pretty enthusiastic for the opportunity, as it would have been a great financial start to the year. After I sent the proposal I heard nothing, and finally after 3 […]