March 20th, 2007
As all boomers know “The times they are a changin’”. What with all the troubles in the sub-prime mortgage market it looks as if the housing slump looks like it will go through this year. Not good. A prolonged slump in the residential housing sector will cause a slump in the general economy. May be a recession […]
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March 14th, 2007
http://www.linkedin.com/home This is the link for “Linked In” which appears to be your personal networking site. My son sent this to me and though I haven’t gotten into every nook and cranney it appears to be very cool. Take a look. Tell what you think.
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March 2nd, 2007
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is holding a one day conference on boomers and work. The web site is www.sce-boomer.uwm.edu . This get together is the second in the past year by UWM on this same topic. The thing I find interesting is that it’s being put on by their Center for Workforce Development […]
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February 10th, 2007
Most of the articles you see are about "the entrepreneur", the lone wolf, the sole proprietor. In truth most small businesses are a collaboration of several people. No one can do it all. No one has all the good ideas. Someone has to be the backup when another can’t be in place to do their […]
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December 14th, 2006
There was a very intriguing article in Investor’s Business Daily on Wednesday, December 13. It was an interview with Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, With Boomers Retiring, U.S. Tech Industry Faces ‘Quiet Crisis’; http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?rtsec=17&artnum=1&issue=20061213&rss=1
The jest of the article was that the retirement of boomers from the sciences and engineering talent pool was going […]
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December 12th, 2006
I’m not against giving business associates gifts. I just always felt that business gift giving for the holidays is a load of crap. The bottle of booze or box of grapefruit for a client was cheesy.
If you were a good vendor then you gave you clients the best service and the best deal you […]
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