A friend was pumping gas the other day and paying $1.27 a gallon. He snapped a picture on his iPhone and posted it to Facebook. The comments came pouring in. Most of his friends were envious. They were envious because they had intimate knowledge of the price of gasoline. They knew it when it hit […]
We can all expect to get bad news occasionally throughout our lives and for most of us, the good news outnumbers the bad, so we shouldn’t complain too much. However, that’s hard to remember when you receive a letter from the IRS notifying you of an audit; an experience I was treated to not long […]
I think that small business owners must sometimes feel like contestants in The Hunger Games, except that there’s never a winner. I say this because it seems like small business owners are always running around like crazy with a target on their backs. Consider mandatory paid sick leave. In the last couple of years and […]
A colleague used to work for a major corporation where the two founders – who started the company in their garage – were still at the helm. In the early days they gave all their employees Thanksgiving turkeys. They continued the tradition even when they employed several thousand people. It was seen as a pleasant […]
An acquaintance used to teach seniors in high school. He would ask them what kinds of careers they wanted to pursue. About half the boys would say that they wanted to get into the video game industry. Certainly there is money to be made in video games. But even this huge industry isn’t big enough […]