Coming Attractions - a calendar of speaking and travel plans

Essential Guide to Starting a Business - your checklist

Improvement: The Butterfly Effect

Happy Thanksgiving: a quote
A quote for the day: Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself. - Rumi I wish you all a Thanksgiving filled with abundant sweetness. I am grateful for your presence in my life. Thank you.  

The Jump-start Meeting
Recently I was seated next to Laura Van Galen, the dynamic head of Bleu Marketing, a full-service direct marketing firm based in San Francisco. She described to me a practice she uses with her senior team, the daily jump-start meeting. Are all the parts working together? Here’s how th

Multitasking: a quote
A quote for the day: There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. – Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, c. 1740

Recipe for productivity
Bon Appetit! Like a featured recipe in a cooking magazine, productivity has many ingredients. Some are obvious (oh, there’s beef in the beef stew!) while some are subtle (who knew that excellent doughnuts actually require a whisper of nutmeg??) We can leave something out, we can make substitutions, but the dish won’t achieve the same heights without all its parts.

Do Not Interrupt Me!
It's a time management thing The national “do not call” list is well-known to many people. By registering your business or home number, telemarketers once were forbidden from calling your number – at dinner time or any time – for five years. Exceptions included those who were calling for legitimate chari