Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category

Update on Yesterday’s Taking Risks to Be Successful Blog Post

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I asked a friend to review yesterday’s post because it was personal.  She was critical, yet truthful, so I changed it.  Here’s the new ending…. “Are you intimidated by doing business on the Web? I know how challenging it it for I was also intimidated. But you must face an inevitable migration to mass shopping [...]

You Must Take Risks to Be Successful

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

“A lot of successful people are risk-takers.  Unless you’re willing to do that – to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” – Phillip Adams. I believe it was the winter of 1982. My wife and I had recently moved into a modest northwest suburban house which I thought was [...]

Recession Drives Women Back to the Work Force

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Steven Greenhouse wrote an article for the New York Times on September 18, 2009. “The Great Recession is pushing many highly educated women who had left work to stay at home with their children to dive back into the labor pool, according to several nationally recognized experts on women in the workplace.” He added later: [...]