General Business

I don’t sleep well or enough. I’m at my computer many, many hours working and communicating with the world. I never really thought much beyond my own sleep habits; now I am. A survey released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation found that people average six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on […]

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I’m going to be writing my next newsletter on privacy, and I wanted to mention something about it now, ahead of time. In essence, there is no such thing as privacy anymore, especially as it pertains to work. More and more companies are penalizing employees for behavior outside of work, and that’s scary. A friend […]

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Okay, here’s the initial story; I’m not sure if this link will work, so I’ll highlight it, just in case. Ten Filipino nurses resigned from the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Center in Smithtown, NY, at the same time. They said they left because conditions were dangerous, they’d brought their concerns up to management, believed […]

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I went to a networking luncheon put on today by the Greater Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, of which I’m a member. It was held at Outback Steakhouse in Clay, NY, and I was told it was there last year also, which means it must have been two years ago that I went to the last […]

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One of the problems of being an independent consultant is that sometimes you’re marketing yourself to the people who are the ones who make the money decisions, but they don’t have all the knowledge needed to make the proper decisions. That may not sound fair, but I’ll give an example. In healthcare, for example, the […]

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