I believe all of us have it within ourselves to be extremely successful. Some people get there while others don’t. I can’t say that I’m successful yet, though I’ve had some very good times, enough to keep me a relatively happy guy. Flash Alexander from Pixabay What holds many of us back from being successful? […]

I’d like to share a true story from my history with you. Back in 1969, my dad, who was career military, was being sent to Vietnam. Because of a series of circumstances, my mother and I ended up living with my grandmother in this black neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. When she first bought the […]

I have a friend who recently lost her job after working at the company for over 30 years. She’s one of the smartest people I know, so while we were having lunch days after it happened I told her that she should look at it as an opportunity to maybe do something else, something big […]

Yesterday was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr holiday. I’ve written many posts over the years about Dr. King so I decided to skip it this year and concentrate on a part of his message from the past. Let’s start with this quote: David via Compfight “People are often led to causes and often become […]

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 […]