A colleague of mine is about to move offices. Or, more precisely, her company is about to move her office across town. This has prompted mass angst (not including her) about office space and what the new digs will look like. Which got me thinking about how stupidly...
American University has a new advertising campaign around wonkiness. I'm assuming it's an effort to transform the university's image from "rich kids party school" to "serious institute of higher learning." One of the taglines for AU's campaign is "Wonk spelled...
You're probably going to see a lot of inspiring blog posts today (and maybe read a few of them too). You see, it's Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is The Power of We. But since I write a business blog, I've been thinking about how this theme applies to what...
I have a problem with long-term contracts. If you have to lure customers into sticking around, what does that say about your confidence in your product, service, and/or value? Okay, I get it. You spent a lot of effort bringing people in. And you want to incentivize...
Sports reporter Stephen A. Smith once commented that Golf Week's ill-conceived cover about Tiger Woods would never have happened had there been any diversity in the newsroom. (Of course, that still doesn't answer the "what were they thinking?" question.) I've always...
Some people don't deserve to run a business. A basic rule of business is that income has to exceed expenses. If it doesn't, then you have to figure out why (and determine how to tweak your model to be successful). Or maybe not. According to an article in the...
I discovered one of my old blog posts "published" on someone else's Web site. I sent the business an e-mail to remove my blog post immediately as they did not have permission to use it. Then I wrote in a Facebook exchange on the topic: I'm really just [mad] on...
A few years ago, my local Shakespeare company started experimenting with theatre in the round. The stage and seating were reconfigured, and the first production launched with great fanfare. Then I spent three hours watching the actors from the side. The director had...
There's a women's entrepreneurs' group that I joined last year. There are chapters, and bimonthly meetings, and a rigid meeting format that kind of drives me crazy. The intent of the sessions is solid: brainstorming solutions to members' business challenges and...
Sporting events have become sensory overload zones. The NFL has cheerleaders. The NBA has cheerleaders too, and mascots who do wacky slam dunks. Major League Baseball has sausage throws (don't ask) and trivia questions and "walk up" songs. The last is the music each...