Counting Sins or Blessings

One of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned in blame rarely solves any argument. Instead, the process should concentrate on solving the underlying problem, not so much the feelings associated with it. When you solve the underlying problem, often it...

What Businesses Miss

This morning, I saw an article about how Microsoft was talking with Adobe and might even want to form a merger to deal with Apple in the mobile space. What’s wrong with this thinking? It turns out, something that causes many businesses of any size problems. ...

Teaching is Hard Work

I just watched the first episode of A & E’s new series, Teach, where actor Tony Danza tries to teach a tenth grade english class at Northeast high school in Philadelphia.  While there are plenty of detractors in this situation, I’m excited this show...

The Education Flap

There’s a perception in this Country that education is broken.  Oprah has jumped on the bandwagon with her shows on the “Waiting for Superman” documentaries, and made a lot of comments that are known to be more myth than fact.  I won’t say...

Thoughts on Homeownership

I was reading this article in Time Magazine that discussed whether our “fetish” with homeownership in this country makes any sense.  While I understood the points they made about buying a house not being the pinnacle of every American’s dream...

Maybe I’m Silly, but….

Apology to all regular readers for this unusual rant.  I promise to return you to your regularly scheduled blog posts, but I had to get this off my chest. Why are people putting up with this guy in Florida?  It seems to me that if rational people cannot convince this...