As every entrepreneur knows, every hit opens up an opportunity. However, when it comes to the personal, the strength, perseverance and fortitude to look for the opportunity become that much more difficult. That said, I was impressed by this story about Izumi Tateno as he reinvented himself and rebuilt his career as a pianist, now [...]

The New Economy is here. And, it is accelerating rapidly. Not one of us in business does not feel at some intellectual or guttural level that our businesses are in crisis, or, at the very mere minimum, at risk. The rules have changed so substantially in the way that business is conducted today that the [...]

We have a semi-no rehire policy for our company. The rehire policy indicates, in general, that any employee (we call them associates) who leaves our company, voluntarily or involuntarily, will not be hired back. Our policy is not intended to be a sledgehammer directed to individuals who are seeking career opportunity elsewhere. Nor is it [...]

Don’t be concerned about being right or wrong. Only be concerned about finding and advancing the best argument. When you advance the best argument, you advance your interest as well as the interest of your company, your family, your client and your industry, regardless of what the person or enterprise you are dealing with ultimately [...]

I was having a conversation this past Friday night with some neighbors about what it takes to be successful in business. In the middle of the conversation, I was reminded of observing from time to time the language coaches use then they are critiquing their own sporting events. Have you ever heard those types of [...]

All science is the reduction of multiplicity to unity. Any great scientific theory takes a whole range of phenomena and then organizes them into a vision that unifies the phenomena. As human beings, the more we are able to unify all the various and disparate events, characteristics and attributes of existence into a unified view, [...]

“The concept is contextuality, for all insights have a form of interpretation based upon its ambient environment…the context in which it lives. Original writing date: September 24, 2007