Score another one for Abundance
Published April 28th, 2008Entrepreneur is out with its annual Hot 100 – the magazine’s list of the fastest-growing businesses in America.  Who’s #1 this year?  It’s Simply Self Storage.
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Archive for the Management Category
Is Newsweek out of Time?
Published April 4th, 2008Today’s WSJ takes a look at the future of Newsweek, which this week announced plans to shed roughly one-fifth of its staff.  It’s not pretty.  Toward the of the piece, the reporter describes a speech that Newsweek editor Jon Meacham (a good guy, a smart journalist, and an old friend) recently gave at Columbia University. Meacham “asked who […]
Quote of the Day: A Bentley, not a Rolls
Published March 30th, 2008Incoming Bentley College president Gloria Cordes Larson says she wants her graduates to “be ethically grounded leaders who combine left brain analysis and business process skills with right brain qualities of creativity, empathy, and an appreciation for other perspectives.” (Source:  Boston Globe, 3/29/08)
(Lap)topless meetings
Published March 29th, 2008One reason I decided to work for myself 11 years ago was to avoid going to meetings. Â At one place I labored back in the early 90s, I was astonished to discover a few months into the job that several people did nothing except attend meetings. Â I’d have stuff to do (”Ahhh!!!”), but they’d […]