Posted in business, economy on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My former boss, Bob G., sent me a great article that recently appears in Business Week. Marshall Goldsmith writes with some advice on what to do at work to deal with all the bad behavior that is happening at companies all over the country. In a nutshell, he is encouraging us to be helpful. It [...]
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Posted in Google, Microsoft, technology on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been a Microsoft customer for post of my life. Even though I moved over to Mac about a year ago, and have never looked back, I still bought Microsoft Office for Mac. After looking for closely at Google Docs, I am beginning to think that I may never need another Microsoft product, ever. Google [...]
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Posted in charity, education, Junior Achievement, nonprofit, philanthropy on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are few days that I felt as nervous as I did teaching my Junior Achievement class in the South Bronx. It was the first Friday of December 2008 and I received the day off from work to teach Economics to 7th graders at Middle School (MS) 223. This school is just down the street [...]
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Posted in charity, nonprofit, philanthropy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have had the great fortune to move easily back and forth between the nonprofit and private sectors. I started out in nonprofit just after I finished undergrad, then went to the private sector for a few years, back to nonprofit, then to business school, and back to the private sector. This movement between the [...]
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Posted in books, family, friendship, Hachette Book Group USA, hope on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hachette Book Group has a fantastic line-up of book releases this year. I just finished Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi by Nanci Kincaid. I wanted a book that would lift me up and make me feel more hopeful, and that’s exactly what Nanci Kincaid delivers. We are presented with a family in Mississippi [...]
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Posted in career, hope, job, Marcus Buckingham, Oprah, work on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks after we went through the introductory session of Marcus Buckingham’s on-line workshop, I finally sat down to go through session 2. Why such a gap right? Schedules, yes, but there was a larger reason to. Fear – fear of finding and discovering something new and different. Fear of change. Sometimes it’s easier, [...]
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Posted in friendship, hope on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am always so grateful for the compassion, loyalty, and helpfulness of my friends who see me through tough times, who help me solve problems, and who generally make me feel good about being me. I know they’re great people, kind and loving and concerned. Today I am wrestling with an especially tough problem and [...]
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Posted in hope, kindness, New York City on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I returned home from the airport at 1am after being awake since 4am the morning before, dealing with quite possibly one of the worst days of my life in-between. I arrived at my apartment door frustrated, deeply saddened, and full of disappointment. I looked back at the cab that had dropped me at the curb [...]
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