The blues standard, “No one loves you when you’re down and out,” seems to be the mantra for most businesses today. Recessions are infections. We hear complaints in the grocery line, from our neighbors and friends, and in line at the bank…
Some old-time Mail Boxes Etc. franchisees are saying that working with their franchisor has caused stress, health problems, depleted retirement funds, and bankruptcies, while they waited seven years for their lawsuit against UPS to come to trial.
Woloshin Communications Principal Mara Woloshin and her daughter, Lila, are profiled in this story by Associated Press Reporter Eileen Alt Powell on summer jobs for teens in a depressed economy.
Dear Mama Goldberg – like you told us so many times – you didn’t raise any dummies. Your house, kept immaculate by the copious use of bleach and fragrant with fried, sautéed, steamed and stewed onions. Food was never lacking and no one who entered our house ever left hungry. But Mama what you were hungry for was the quest for knowledge. The pink stucco California track house was filled with dime-store figurines of massive museum sculptures, melmac dishes that copied famous china patterns, and of course, plastic sofa covers. But on every coffee table, on every shelf and in every room (including the bathrooms) were books and magazines. Read more →
The Goldberg family LOVED TO TALK. And most of all they we talked about each other. But like understating how your brain talks to itself to learn and interpret visual and emotional images, no one ever really teaches you how to understand the contributions – life contributions and even the business lessons that are provided by living with and observing family members. Read more →
Looking back at very peculiar family, my mishpocheh, will give you tools to remember and contemporary messages you can apply, almost immediately to current business models, no matter what your work situation is. Read more →
