A quick examination of my upbringing doesn’t exactly put me in the business category of entrepreneurship. My childhood was sans business acumen. My mom was an opera singer turned psychotherapist and my dad – a former high school administrator – had a Ph.D. from Columbia in Education.
Raising Judy and my sis, Mary of AnimalPerson.net, was a mishmash of opera, 60 Minutes, and cartoons. Not necessarily in that order. My sister and I learned of the arts, music and the power of the written word as our home was lined with hundreds of books.
As for my adult life, I am a step-mom without the benefit of the typical parenting process, but a quick read of Julie Lenzer Kirk’s, The ParentPreneur Edge, never the less offers a fun and unusually humorous alternative to the typical business book.
Instead of trying cases, Lawyers Alice Crowe and her twin sister Alicia are holding court in farmer’s markets across the northeast. Just over a year ago they chose to follow their passion- bottling their grandmother’s hot sauce. As intellectual-property lawyers, their career lead them into the lives of thousands of people who wanted to realize [...]
AHHHH – another up-day on Wall Street after a disastrous sell off yesterday fueled by sub-prime concerns. Positive earnings reports from on-line retailer Amazon.com and Dow component Boeing softened the blow of some less than appetizing housing data. We’ve seen housing data dribble out on the up and down side for a few months but [...]
Business 2.0 is running what on the surface appears to be a fun interactive polling project, but is really a commentary on what we all deem as the successful set who are making some kind of contribution, whether to business or society. It’s calling on you to vote for the business people who inspire, inform, [...]
How do we do good, while doing well? That’s the root question addressed in every issue of Motto Magazine: Purpose, Passion, Profit. I’ve been writing for them for a couple of issues and I’d like to bring your attention to the most recent March/April edition which features, “6 Gurus of Eco-Chic.” For this issue, I [...]
There are true economic sustainability issues when companies begin to implement work/life integration policies. But embracing such methods doesn’t mean corporate America has to break the bank. Here’s an interview I did for the April edition of the Work/Life Minute with Judy Martin for Canvas Long Island Magazine. For small businesses, there might be some pearls [...]
