Lessons from Harvard: Learn to Shift Your Perspective (in Business & in Life!)
{4:45 minutes to read} Recently, I accompanied my daughter on a visit to Harvard University. We joined a group of her peers headed up to Boston to meet Harvard Professor Mahzarin Banaji.
How Can You Keep a City’s Character While Preparing for 21st Century Needs?
{Time to read: 4:10 minutes} Last year, the City of Stamford, Connecticut began a long journey to update and improve it’s “2024 Master Plan.” This document is a “roadmap” for future real estate development and major infrastructure upgrades in the city. City officials and other interested parties have high hopes that the project will […]
The Booming Market of Elder Care
{Time to read: 2:25 minutes} Over the last month, I’ve been having conversations with a colleague who acquired a home care assistant franchise in the lower Fairfield County area. With the population aging, baby boomers are becoming elder boomers. Many of them have disposable income and want to make sure they can stay in their […]
Why Must Business Leaders Often Fail in Order to Succeed?
{Time to read: 4 minutes} Many entrepreneurs and corporate executives are often faced with tough decisions to make, but they don’t always have a team of trusted advisors at their disposal. Vistage International, based out of San Diego, is an organization that brings ‘C level’ executives together for monthly meetings to network with centers of […]
Preparing Generation Z For Life: Improving the college experience!
Recently, I came across a New York Times article which revealed that kids graduate from college and often remark “I don’t know what I want to do…for my first job…or career”. Even though parents spend massive amounts of time, energy and money putting them on the right path. Over the past few decades, the U.S. population […]
Considering relocating your business? Think outside the box!
How do you decide where your business home base should be? Think outside the box and consider the technological infrastructure and tax rates of potential areas. At a recent meeting I attended, technology experts from Connecticut talked about the fact that there are markets – Austin and Chattanooga – where connectivity is much faster than […]
Using Future Spotting Effectively
In our last article, we discussed the advantages of using “crystal ball” in a business setting. While one can hope that gazing deep into such a device can reveal the future, this is usually not the case. Instead, one can brush up on their “Future Spotting” ability which refers to having an awareness of emerging […]
Is your time management system like this?
With a new year comes a new way of managing information. I used to use a planner called Time Design, which was a system that gave an activities checklist, rather than a daily to do list. You would take your thoughts and ideas, download them then prioritize them. There was a category for immediate projects, […]
3 Challenges Business Startups Face
I have been working with several rapidly-growing companies. For some, their employee base has doubled or even tripled in a span of 12-18 months. The challenges these companies have faced can be categorized into 3 areas: Space. What is the right amount of space and where should it be located? Communication. How does a company […]