This is an easy one for me. My epiphany, my moment of realization, came from reading The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber.
The concept is simple: Work ON your business as if you were going to replicate it, not IN your business, just “doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it.” In other words, figure out the system […]
says MSNBC.com
And in a new book titled Nextville, Barbara Corcoran talks about where we will be retiring. One group of retirees is heading back downtown. They are tagged as “ruppies”(retired urban professionals) . For example, I know a couple who left their beautiful home in the country, with landscaping, and […]
“The chain-link gate yowled like an angry tomcat in the watery light of dawn.” This is the first sentence of a book by a “New York Times bestselling author.” I can’t say that I’ve seen a more hack-kneed or trite opening to a book since Snoopy wrote one. There follows a number of quotes lauding the […]
The death of Charles Heston was a sad day. Many of us Baby Boomers remember his great acting in movies like The Ten Commandments.
Mary Emma Allen includes some video interviews with Mr. Heston and his wife in her Alzheimer’s Notes blog.
In the video he says, “I can part the Red Sea but I can’t […]
I have been reading about a new book titled Illusions of Entrepreneurship, from Yale University Press (as a matter of fact, I ordered a copy). In my reading, I ran across a quiz about entrepreneurship. You really should take this quiz. It has answers to questions such as:
Who is likelier to start a new business […]
A new book (2007) on Baby Boomers titled Generation Ageless is full of interesting information about our generation, including the fact that we are the subject of more research than any other generation in history. The book was written by J. Walter Smith, president of Yankelovich, and Yankelovich senior partner Ann Clurman, and we’re reminded […]
No, “the sandwich generation” phrase has nothing to do with eating sandwiches while watching “Leave it to Beaver.” It means that Baby Boomers are stuck in the middle - taking care of children and aging parents at the same time.
I’m finally out of the “sandwich” phase. My mother and mother-in-law both died within the […]
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Written by Jean Murray [email] for b5media.
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