Dear Madam Secretary, I’ve always been an admirer of yours. I cheered when President Bill Clinton appointed you as the first woman to serve as our Secretary of State. You broke through the glass ceiling and you were an outstanding role model and inspiration. When I wrote The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success, I […]
Protecting customer data in your small business takes good planning, training and vigilance because serious threats come from all sides: Hardware, Software, People, and Systems. Hardware “Skimmers” are responsible for many of the infamous retail customer data breaches that have made headlines in recent years. Skimmers are hardware devices that are surreptitiously installed on your […]
Why do Internet startups that aren’t showing a profit wind up with astronomical valuations? Scalability. The idea is that the startup will eventually find a system to make some money and by virtue of being Internet-based, that system will lend itself to being cost-effectively scaled up. And by “cost-effectively” I mean that it can produce […]
It’s about time to rummage through my spice rack and see what I need to throw away and what I need to replace. I’m sure I’ll find several little jars that have only a small bit of the original herb or spice left. In addition to those, there are probably some very old spices that […]
A friend of mine who lives in Nashville was on his morning walk the other day when he spied a long line of people along the street. The neighborhood is a trendy mix of businesses and homes and often the starting location for various local 5K and 10K runs, so he thought people were queuing […]