Brent Leary does it again.  Just read one of his recent blogs entitled Four Good Minutes with David Meerman Scott.  What a great read and a great listen.  If you’re a marketer in today’s world, this delivers quick insight into a strategy to position yourself as a thought leader, as someone with your finger on the pulse of what’s going on.  You just might want to embrace this technique for your company or your personal business.   Take a few mi ...     Read entire post

Eric Chabrow’s recent article “Most Employers Resist Telecommuting” is an interesting and thought provoking read. ‘According to CIO Insight Research's Mobility Survey, 51 percent of CIOs and other senior IT leaders surveyed said their companies discourage fulltime telecommuting. An equal number of the 237 respondents—24 percent each—said their firms encourage fulltime telecommuting or remain neutral’ The article focuses on Telecommuting as a full-tim ...     Read entire post

As many of us were, I was stunned and terribly saddened by the passing of Tim Russert last Friday.  After my son went off to college and I was living alone, I simply loved my Sunday mornings with my pot of tea and “Meet the Press”.  I was raised in a family where dinner was a time for all of us to eat together, to listen to Walter Cronkite and to discuss politics and the economy.  Since my dad worked for National Association of Manufacturers as an tax lobbyist, he was ...     Read entire post

It’s official – according to AAA, the price of gasoline is over $4 almost everywhere – and rising.  I re-watched “Three Days of the Condor” last week during the Sidney Pollack tribute.  Solid film (Pollack/Redford worked together 7 times) made in 1975, just after the first oil crisis (1973).  Although the film can be interpreted as about the CIA and the tactics they use, in today’s environment of fuel and food shortages it is difficult to watch ...     Read entire post