One of the best things about the New Economy is that it's spurring New Ideas. Sure, we have no alternative, but the point of writing a column like this is to highlight the upside of the downturn.
Enter Ken Davenport.
I'm sure it makes me sound hopelessly middle-aged, but being able to post this blog on a Megabus from Manhattan to Washington, DC feels like science fiction to me. At 45, I'm old enough to remember the excitement of getting a push-button phone.
A digression: I'm determined not to be one of those...
New York is covered in ankle-deep slush, a fitting metaphor for 2010. So with that in mind, I headed over to Times Square for the fourth annual Good Riddance Day, where participants could literally dispose of this past year in a giant shredder.
My partner, the Long-Suffering Floyd, and I...
Successful Companies Gain Profits by Adding Employee Benefits
3:00 PM 12/22/2010
What recession?
That's how employers from Florida to Vermont to California feel after seeing their revenue double and triple in the past two years.
At a time when companies are cutting jobs, Dealer.com, a Burlington, Vt.,-based developer of websites and online marketing tools for car dealerships...
Stop Fighting for Just Another Job - Dip Into The Blue Ocean Strategy
6:00 PM 12/14/2010
"Don't compete with rivals, make them irrelevant."
So say W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, authors of the book, Blue Ocean Strategy, a paradigm-shifting look at building your business.
"In today's overcrowded industries," they write, "competing head-on results in nothing but a bloody 'red...
It was just three years ago that Australian Rhonda Byrne revealed the not-so-little secret of The Secret. Critics scoffed at the Law of Attraction, but it generated sales of 19 million.
Today, with at least that many Americans unemployed, Byrne's ideas aren't so attractive anymore. According to...
Benefits shmenefits. Whether 800,000 lose their unemployment checks now or later, it's time we admitted that we're in a Gig-conomy, and will be for at least a generation.
I'll say it again -- mostly because I have another Gig-conomy link. By way of example, a part-time marketing job at action...
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with your extended family only costs $43.47, which only seems possible if you outsource your meal to India. What's more, that figure doesn't include hidden costs like alcohol. Or Valium. Or therapy.
There's a reason why I've published two novels about starving artists turning into con artists. It's the same reason why book three in the series sits in a drawer: art and commerce are two dogs that don't want to mate. And commerce is a bitch.
It's like the old joke: What do you call a musician...
"Are you NUTS? It's so dangerous. I would never ride a bike in New York."
A day doesn't go by that I don't get warned about my impending vehicular doom. Friends, family, even a guy on the street have said I'm on a suicide mission. Of course, that guy was taking a smoke break.
I respond with a...
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