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It’s Never Too Late To Succeed

This week I received an email from Robert, a reader responding to a recent column I wrote entitled “Shattering Rocks – A Simple Lesson That Will Last A Lifetime”. The feedback I receive week after week as a result of this column and my blog is both…

Price Versus Product Differentiation

We all know that the economy is cyclical. If you wanted, you could spend hours analyzing data and charts that track everything from the Future Inflation Gauge (FIG) and Leading Home Price Index (LHPI) to the U.S. Weekly Leading Index (WLI). Understanding the triggers that influence…

Mobile Technology – Advantages For Small Businesses

It never ceases to amaze me when I think of how far we have come technologically and how deeply technological advancements have affected the way we do business. Let me give you an example. I’m spending part of the week in a conference in Palm Beach…

A Birthday Party Worth Celebrating

My son was invited to a birthday party a couple of weekends ago for one of his friends from middle school. Angelo was turning thirteen, and this party was going to be a big deal. The group of about eight boys were supposed to get dropped…

“Texas Dolly” – Playing A Poor Hand Well

“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but from playing a poor hand well. “

Denis Waitley

In the 1976 World Series of Poker Main Event, after surviving a field of competitors which included some of the best poker players in…

Shattering Rocks – A Simple Lesson That Will Last A Lifetime

Every summer my brother, a Jesuit priest, takes a group of high school students and parents on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic for two weeks to help a desperately poor little town with the most basic of needs. The group, which averages about 100 people,…

How To Write A Winning Resume

The statistics are absolutely convincing. According to every major poll addressing what Americans consider to be the nation’s greatest problems and priorities, without exception, Cialis whithout prescription the number one answer is jobs and the economy ( www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm). We are living in what many…

Disparities In Access To Financial Capital – Part III

Over the last three weeks we have been addressing an issue recently reported on by the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency regarding disparities in access to financial capital between minority and non-minority companies in the United States. If you didn’t have a chance to…

Disparities In Access To Financial Capital – Part II

"Don’t come to me with a problem unless you can also come with a couple of solutions that we can discuss."

That has been my father’s philosophy for as long as I can remember, and which served as the introduction to my column last week, Disparities In Access To…

Disparities In Access To Financial Capital