Unfortunately, male pattern baldness does not run in my family. That means, well into my middle years, I still have enough sprouting up there to occasionally read what’s going down in DC, grab two handfuls, scream at the top of my lungs and pull with all my might.
Here’s a zinger I stumbled on today while [...]
A rare re-post from our company blog. A great group of people doing amazing work…
“With 85% of all global disease directly attributed to bad water, the stakes and opportunity for improving lives in the developing world have never been higher. Our friends at Water for Life approached us to completely redesign their identity and take [...]
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America has a personnel management problem. The personnel in question; the ever present boomer generation, the 7 million of us born between 1946 and 1964. And the management problem is just what to do with us as we ease into our twilight years. As with everything else related to this generation, the numbers are big. [...]
I took a couple of hours this weekend to watch Into Great Silence, a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was first released in 2005. It’s the remarkable story of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in a remote corner of the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The film was [...]
The events of the last few weeks have left many Americans anxious and fearful. Nothing stirs emotions quite like losing money. And Americans have lost a boatload. The financial gains they’ve made over the last 5 -10 years have disappeared. Seniors on fixed incomes are reassessing retirement and many will have to return to work. [...]
Washington has been host to many great political spectacles including impeachments, bedroom scandals, money grabs and the D.C. specialty, tuxedo mud wrestling. But the spectacle in Washington this week is almost unprecedented. It’s the squeeze play to end all squeeze plays. And we’ve all got a ringside seat. At least as long as we have [...]
Greed
noun- The desire for or pursuit of money, wealth, power, food, or other posessions, especially when this denies the same goods to others.
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I admit the recent string of setbacks on Wall Street have left me sad, angry and confused…Sad for all the fixed income seniors who have suddenly lost the metrics for retirement they so [...]
A number of years ago I watched a 60 Minutes interview with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. In classic 60 Minutes fashion, he was pressed about his limited philanthropic activities. As I recall, he replied that he was focused on his business and would take the time to share more of his wealth when he was [...]
At the Acme School of Advertising, we were taught to discuss absolutely anything with clients with the exception of religion and politics. In essence, keep it lively but never personal. It seemed reasonable enough at the time. Sports, movies and weekends at the lake were low risk. And yet, as we meet people we admire [...]