Networking Works!

Networking Works :You’re Just Doing It Wrong There is nothing more vital to the survival and success of any business than its ability to obtain clients. Yet many business owners believe that if they have the right product or service, clients will seek them out...

What’s Your Story?

At a recent networking event, senior managers who’d been downsized out of high-paying corporate jobs took turns telling what they had done before and what they were looking for next. Person after person stood up and recounted a laundry list of credentials and jobs, in...

Thankful 2015

The Attitude of Gratitude Oh no, not another newsletter about being “Thankful”! At this time of year your inbox is probably full of November newsletters that are majoring on the subject of Thankfulness. As business people one thing we can all be thankful...

Customer or Employee

The Customer Does NOT Come First Most of us have the phrases “the customer always comes first” or “the customer is always right”, but I would like to challenge that notion, and explain why I believe it’s just plain WRONG! Recently on a...

Tradition and Culture

English Christmas Traditions (and some cocktail recipes) As an ex-pat living in the U.S. for the last 10 years I have a somewhat different perspective on Christmas. It may surprise you to know that the British do not celebrate Thanksgiving and that Christmas is a much...