How are you feeling about 2011 ending and 2012 beginning? For most of us, 2011 was a really tough year. The economy is as weak as we have ever seen it (even worse than the great depression), unemployment is high and credit markets are tight.  It’s a scary time to make changes. In times like [...]

I found the following on the Leadership Freak blog.  It’s a guest post written by Lolly Daskal and I think it does a good job of pointing out the differences between leadership and management.  The point is, there is a difference. What is the biggest difference between managers and leaders? Both roles are important but [...]

I recently wrote a series of posts talking about the U.S. tax code and how it ultimately discourages U.S. businesses from incorporating in the U.S. and creating jobs here. Here are links to the three posts: Is It Unpatriotic To Move Your Business Out of the Country? More About The Tax Code and Overseas Corporations [...]

Let me brag for a second. I’m really good at coming up with ideas for businesses. During the course of just about every day, I come up with several business ideas. I see the potential for a business in almost everything I see and do. Problem is, coming up with ideas isn’t the hard part [...]

I promise, I’m not turning this blog into an outlet for my political views. In fact, if you know me at all, you know I hate politics. Even so, I just keep running across information on taxes and job growth that amazes me. In my last post, I included a quote from Sean Goldsmith of [...]

Yesterday, I posted my thoughts on how the U.S. tax code encourages companies to set up overseas corporations, denying the United States the benefit of the taxes that could be generated from those companies. In particular, I discussed the emergence of Lug, Switzerland as the hot new destination for corporations seeking low taxes. Recently, Sean [...]

The U.S. Government’s financial situation is in bad shape. The Congress recently had to increase the government’s debt ceiling before they could borrow more money to pay the interest on the money they had already borrowed. That’s messed up! If you or I were in this type of situation, we would likely reduce the amount [...]

I was thinking about Jim Valvano today.  In case you don’t know the name, Valvano was the basketball coach at North Carolina State University from 1980 – 1990.  Valvano is known primarily for two things; two moments in time. The first occured in the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament.  That year, NC State was not a great [...]

Derek Sivers is a unique guy.  He was/is a musician who just wanted to sell his music.  He started a website and set it up so people could buy his CDs online.  His musician friends liked what he was doing and asked if he could sell their CDs too. One thing led to another and [...]

The Pittsburgh Pirates have not had a winning season since 1992.  That’s 18 consecutive seasons with a losing record.  At some point during the past 18 seasons, you would think someone would have said, “We need to do things differently.” To be fair, Pirates management has “said” they are going to do things differently.  They’ve “said” [...]