Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth.   How has that phenomenally dumb concept endured since John Heywood uttered those thoughtless words in 1546!  Well, don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth unless you want a very large, feed-guzzling-aged- pet. And likely good sized veterinarian bills.   More elsewhere for you city-folks,...

Political correctness is a particularly insidious and ravenous cancer of the intellect. It has done more harm to all aspects of business and society than any despot could have. It is indisputable that business has to navigate within at best painful, at worst the ethically bankrupt construct of political correctness...

Success defies a universal definition. It is a complex paradigm. On a macro basis, definitions of success differ widely, based on a variety of factors: social position, station and chronology in life, ethnicity, economics, geo-political, and more. It is necessarily defined both qualitatively and quantitatively. It can be unique to...

A few months ago, in a moment I thought justified indignation, I went entirely off the clichéd reservation over what is now a generally accepted trespass on my privacy.  Something that portends to further suffocate my notion of an acceptable social construct.  Although — forgive the immodesty — I am...

“How Can Love So Right Turn Out To Be So Wrong” Adopting from a couple philosophers of our times, Ray, Goodman and Brown of R&B fame, and later the near-iconic BeeGees: good intentions gone bad due to intellectual dishonesty, corporate arrogance, intimidation, situational ethics, the conceit of perceived leadership infallibility....

In reference to this, does anyone who has access to a computer or a reasonably recent mobile device really yearn for the “good old days?” Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in...