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It’s Time For Some Black Swan Contingency Planning
I believe I have an interesting take on the current financial imbroglio we find ourselves in. I am both a small business owner and a financial adviser. So, while the stock market has taken a significant whacking including the largest American bank (WaMu), insurance firm (AIG) and broker (Merrill ...
Email Deception
One of my recent blog posts, "Is Face-to-Face Communications Always the Way to Go?," debated the use of email communication versus face-to-face interaction. Here's something else to think about: People tell more lies when using email than pen and paper. The Well blog of the New York Times contained a ...
Time To Bring Back The Smiley Face To America
First of all, I want to declare for the record that I am an American in spirit (although living in Sweden) and my long-range goal is to return to the land of opportunity -- the United States of America.
I want to spend time in a country with happy citizens and ...
Add Value Before You Slash Prices
An economic climate like we are experiencing at the moment often comes with the competitive pressure to lower prices. I'm not really sure that the downturn so famously chronicled on page one has or ever will really impact the typical small business in the way that it once did, but ...