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Product investing by its very nature is risky; it requires investors to financially support a product that has not yet been created in an effort to bring it to fruition. While any decent investor will do the requisite due diligence to minimize their risk, it's still ultimately a judgment call....

After we wake up from a deep restful sleep always something remains but only for a while. Who has not wondered about the relationship between them? A relationship of the absurd that unconsciously slides into the daily reality and crosses the border between realism and surrealism. Freud has tried to...

Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which crafted literary sensation at their time of publications. But not everything that is penned down as a science-fiction remains so! Why? Exploring the annals of history, we find that sci-fi fictions have often translated into factual...

As with so many other aspects of life and business, the pandemic has put a renewed focus on hiring, exposing old and new challenges for companies in recruiting and retaining talent. Looking more specifically at diversity hiring, companies have often deprioritized progress in this area during the pandemic, despite heightened...

The “Great Resignation” is a signal that the balance of power is shifting toward employees, and the pendulum won’t be swinging back any time soon. Americans are increasingly prioritizing personal happiness and the search for purposeful work over jobs that simply pay the bills. As a result, employers like you...

In real estate, you must master the game of hide and seek. Here’s how you play: The seller hides the property’s problems and the purchaser seeks to find them. Unfortunately, it takes much more effort to find a problem than to hide one.   Once you close, the property’s problems are...

WORDS GO WRONG, SO MAKE THEM RIGHT    Leaders know the importance of picking words with care and using them with precision. Words have impact even if spoken in passing; moreso if written, recorded, messaged and distributed. It’s worth the effort to get wrong words completely out of the conversation and...

As a General Motors Supply Chain leader for over 25 years and now a small business owner, my experience has proven that successful operating fundamentals are the same, no matter the size of the company.  For both General Motors and Classic Auto LLC, this means optimizing data, capacity, and processes...

After my workout one morning last week, I went to one of my favorite restaurants to grab some breakfast and found it was closed.  The restaurant, part of a well-known national brand (let’s call it Bread and Butter), posted a sign on the front door saying they would not open...

“A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” On July 20, 1850, a young man named John Graves Shedd was born on a New Hampshire farm. By age 16, he had begun work as a clerk in a grocery store in Vermont. A year later,...