Pro Athlete Salary Contempt is Overblown

by | Feb 19, 2019 | Business, Sports

Those that know me know I really don’t care for wealth-envy. This is where people make disparaging remarks about people for no other reason than they think the object of their scorn is committing some kind of atrocity by cashing a large paycheck. People love to vilify...

Manny Machado Can Afford to Buy Lunch

by | Feb 19, 2019 | Sports

I’m being sarcastic, of course, but with the super-stud shortstop/third baseman agreeing to a 10-year, $300 million contract with the San Diego Padres, he has the $30 million-per-year deal he has been seeking for more than 3 months since the World Series ended (with...

What is the right amount?

by | Feb 15, 2019 | Business, Social Media

On the surface, this is funny. But once you start thinking about it, you realize how true it is and it saddens you a little. Life in corporate America can be rewarding and frustrating. One of the things I always found frustrating was the unwillingness of big companies...

Do longer hours mean greater productivity?

by | Feb 7, 2019 | Business

What should be considered a good work week? Retired radio talk show host Neal Boortz, who was a lawyer before he got into the radio business, regularly opined “the 40-hour work week is for losers.” His belief was that 40 hours was what the lazy person would put in –...

3 Words with Changing Meanings

by | Feb 2, 2019 | Business, Social Media, Virtual Assistant

Have you ever heard someone say something that made you wonder, “What does that word mean?” My dear friend Regina Lewis recently wrote about it possibly being time to retire the term “Virtual Assistant”  in the wake of the continuing rise in popularity of...

Super Bowl – Who Ya Got?

by | Feb 1, 2019 | Sports

The one real drag about this big day is that, like everything else these days, there is a ton of politics playing out in an area that should be separate from politics. CBS, every bit as much a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party as ABC, NBC, CNN and just about all of...