Mitch's Blog

I have a friend that just had a business contract go badly and end abruptly. When she asked what the problem was, she couldn’t get a straight answer from the people other than to say they weren’t happy with the direction things were going. At the same time, even though she was upset at how […]

I have a few blogs that I write on that rarely pertain to this business blog. One of them has to do with my push towards becoming a millionaire, which I wrote about once here also. What I’m referencing now goes back to a recent post there that I wrote on learning how to sell, […]

I went to a one hour leadership seminar today, that was put on by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. The presenter, Bart Murphy of Ahern, Murphy & Associates, at some point asked people to yell out qualities they believed would be ideal in quality leaders. The crowd yelled out words like courage, risk taker, honesty, […]

Something most managers hate to do is evaluate either their employees, or themselves. Managers who aren’t comfortable telling employees negative things about their employees really hate when it’s time for employee evaluations. Other managers usually hate it also because they haven’t cared enough to remember much of what most of their employees have done throughout […]

I thank my friend Shirley Frazier, who wrote on her blog, Solo Business Marketing, about the Harvard Business Review Magazine. She was talking about one article in particular, but as I looked at the page, I was impressed by a great many of the articles on leadership and other topics. Of course there are caveats. […]