Lessons of October – Take YES for an Answer

If you are 65 or older, you may remember that in October 1962 the US came as close as it ever has to nuclear warfare when it discovered that Soviet Premier Khrushchev had parked nuclear weapons...

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Second Place Boomers

Sometime this year, Millennials (Gen Y) became the largest adult cohort in the US with another, Gen Z, hot on their tails. They will drive more and more of the economy both in terms of managing businesses...

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Alpha Girls in the Valley

Many of us have seen the movie “ Hidden Figures”  about the female African American mathematicians who played a key role in NASA’s early Mercury flights in the 1960s.   A new book looks at the women who are playing a similar...

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Eight Ways Out

It’s been said that employees don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad leaders. If you’ve had an employee leave because they were offered a huge compensation increase (often by a much larger company) that you couldn’t match, you...

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Scan Me If You Can

You may recall the hit movie “Catch Me If You Can” that recounted the exploits of teenage scammer Frank Abagnale (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) who, before being caught by an FBI agent ( played...

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Honk Kong Harbinger – Why It’s More Important Than you Think

Hong Kong Harbinger:    Recent weeks have seen lots of political unrest that effectively  shut down the Hong Kong airport.  As important as these political protests are, there is a an economic aspect to Hong Kong’s airport  that has not...

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