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Over the past few months we’ve made some interesting observations here at the Consultant’s Corner. In our first column, “The Five Pillars of Growth,” we discussed the dismal statistics business owners face if they wish to survive and make their businesses thrive. We also introduced the Five Pillars of Business Growth: 1) The Customers Experience, [...]
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Poor Gregg Williams. Exiled indefinitely from the NFL. Newly crowned as the poster boy for the NFL’s bounty scandal, the defensive coordinator was just doing his job: riling up highly paid present day gladiators before a violent game. John Madden, former president of the violent and reckless motorcycle gang called the Oakland Raiders, is calling [...]
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Psalm 121 was the first psalm I read, in my grandmother’s King James version of the Bible. I sat on the prickly carpet by the bookcase in my parents’ bedroom, turning the thin pages with care. I had opened the delicate book, its leather cover cracked with age, to these words: “I will lift up [...]
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Last week, I stepped out of CS Arms, antique pistol and receipt in hand, (handguns made before 1898 are exempt from federal regulation) into the sunshine and the main street of Upperville, Va. I paused for traffic which just happened to be two pulpwood trucks out of Hampshire County — neighbors of mine “back [...]
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The world is filled with little lessons — like how you shouldn’t get rid of the baby crib and stroller because just as sure as there are 2 a.m. feedings, you’re going to get a surprise visit from the stork. Or, how about the way washing your car can bring on the rain and carrying [...]
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About 800 people attending a national summit in Orlando, Florida last week spent three days discussing ways to cure this country’s deadly fascination with drugs. Congressman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., kicked off the event by warning those present that America is engaged in a “societal war” that must be won to guarantee its future. He knows, [...]
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Only about half of all Americans regularly review their credit reports. About one third do not use any type of budget to manage their family expenditures. Social Security benefits will account for only two-fifths of the projected income for baby boomers at age 67. When it comes to financial literacy, most Americans are flunking. No [...]
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Before our first child was born, my husband and I had a great dream. Our child was going to eat healthy foods. I would breastfeed to start him out on his path. When he got older and on solid foods, we would buy all organic products to make his meals out of and he would [...]
Continue reading …“No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will.” —Thomas Jefferson The words above are those of Thomas Jefferson, whose 269th birthday we note this week, and that were formed in the midst of the great 18-century disagreement between the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the [...]
Continue reading …Four years ago I climbed aboard the bus and haven’t looked back. Living as I do in a city with a pretty good mass transit system, you won’t find me bemoaning the high price of fuel or needlessly filling up my grocery cart just to receive the gas perk points. Those of you who take [...]
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