Business
Market Mapping
I received a Mothers’ Day Coupon Book from my son this weekend. It had the typical mother’s day offers “clean my room”, “make my bed”, “wake up early”, and then the offer that came straight from a seven year old heart and mind, “play any video games for an hour”, no expiration date.
I laughed, of [...]
Business Alliances
When I started my business I told myself the usual “I’m going to go independently”,
“I’ll go into business by myself” or “go at it alone!”
Soon I realized that we don’t build a business by ourselves, we need people that are willing to trust us and become our clients, we need mentors to teach us, [...]
AIIP members descend on Minneapolis
Since information is power, Minneapolis must be overflowing
with it this week, because a group of independent information professionals has
descended on this beautiful and sunny city as part of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
national conference. This a group of business owners that use their skills in
finding and analyzing information to solve their client’s problems. [...]
My mother’s Garden
by Liz Cruz-Kaegi
Every now and then when my mind needs to rest, I close my eyes and travel to my sister’s porch in the north coast of Honduras. I sit alone, with a cup of coffee at six in the morning and enjoy the crisp air that comes after the fearsome storm of [...]
The curse of knowledge
As my seven year old son would say it, audio books are the
bestest! You can get an education in an arcane topic between exit 4 and exit 15
of the New Jersey Turnpike.
In a recent trip Professor Joshua Kaplan gave me a lecture on Political
Theory. In the first few minutes, he relates a passage from [...]
