Only one in 5 companies makes it to the fifth year, and even fewer make it to 10 years. What do successful companies have in common? 1. The experience and skills of senior managers. More than half of business failures are directly related to managerial incompetence. 2. The energy, persistence, and ingenuity (the will to…
Month: September 2022
First rules of kitchen design
The best way to start planning a kitchen design is to consider the position of the basic elements; kitchen equipment, sink and refrigerator. The formula for a convenient and safe workspace between these elements can take the form of a continuous line or a closely related ‘work triangle’. This sequence of work should be limited…
Work out on the elliptical trainer and throw away your ED medications
It seems you can’t watch any sporting event without getting a heavy dose of Viagra or Cialis commercials. It seems that there is an epidemic of erectile dysfunction that only pharmaceutical companies can cure. But these drugs can have significant side effects and can even be dangerous for segments of the male population with health…
Cruelty to animals in the name of science
Watching a video of a cat being experimented on in a University lab has made me sick. Animal cruelty comes in many different forms and the pain they endure strikes me to the core. Human suffering is more bearable because we can scream and scream and make ourselves heard but the animals are silenced because…
Venture Leasing: Startup Financing on the Rise
According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion in the early 1990s to more than $106 billion in 2000. Although the volume of venture capital has fallen significantly since the economic “bubble” years of the late 1990s, the current volume of about $19 billion per year…
How to make a clean break from a stinky relationship and feel guilt-free
If you’re in a relationship for the first time that has broken up, it’s often hard to let go and find “closure.” The word “close” literally means to shut the door on anything or anyone. In other words, closure is about letting go of the past and not dragging it into the present. In the…
7 interesting healthy recipes for children
Imagine that it is between 3 and 4 in the afternoon, your child has returned from school and the many extracurricular activities and is hungry. While you want to keep them satisfied until dinner, stop and think for a minute before grabbing that conveniently packaged snack from the counter. Do you really want to give…
Maldives live aboard holiday adventure
A few months ago, in March 2009, my boyfriend James and I spent what I can only describe as the vacation of a lifetime in the Maldives. For the past 10 years, since our first vacation together in the Honduran Bay Islands, where we were certified as SCUBA divers, we have been enthusiastic “vacation divers”….
Michael Jackson – The Promise of Neverland
“One measure of any society is how it treats its young… Raising children, providing them with food, safety, love and education, should never be seen as an altruistic act.” Pat Lancaster It really is gone… and now all we can do is stagger back into a kaleidoscope of memories. We are left with a memory…