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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Rent garment in Orwigsburg, PA. (This is a sad story…)

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One of my first jobs was working in a shoe factory in Worcester. This was, of course, a kabillion years ago, when there were a lot of fact...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The roof over your head

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It is stunning to see the pictures of the destruction that Sandy visited upon the Jersey Shore, Staten Island, Rockaway/Queens… We’re used...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Bunker Down

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I certainly hope that I’m not one of them, but, one way or another, by 11 p.m. Eastern tonight – maybe even at 8 p.m. when Ohio is called - ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Pigeon-holes

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Remember when they used to call horse racing the sport of kings? Well, move over, Sea Biscuit. Hold your horses, Man o’ War. Pigeon raci...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Dropping a dime: NYC experiences a post-Sandy payphone renaissance

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Whenever I pass a payphone – which is not very often here in Boston (the only ones I can think of are some bright yellow ones in front of th...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Telecommuting? Not so fast track.

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For years , we’ve been reading all about the future of working, a telecommuter’s paradise in which everyone will bask in the tele-presence o...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

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Since the Irish pretty much invented the holiday, it’s somewhat fitting that this year’s Halloween post begin in the ould sod, keying off an...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Fare-thee-well, Locke-Ober’s

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I seldom get to use the word ‘bastion’ in conversation or in blogging, but the shuttering of Locke-Ober’s restaurant really leaves me with n...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Backfield in motion (gonna have to penalize you if you don’t know what that means)

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Outplacement, in my experience, means cleaning up your résumé, thinking through what you want to do with the rest of your life (other than t...
Friday, October 26, 2012

‘Reservoirs of pathogens’. (That would be your smartphone.)

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I haven’t gone so f as to put on a surgical mask and pull on a pair of latex gloves. But I did just swab my laptop and Blackberry with iso...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Into the Boston ‘Shark Tank’

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Even though I have at best an exceedingly limited capacity to discern a kick-ass business idea from a dud, I remain nonetheless interested i...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How I Acquired My Vast Set of Business Skills Without Using Video Games

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A week or so ago, The Washington Post had an interesting article on how video game players are acquiring valuable business skills in the co...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

“Rebecca” meets “The Producers”

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I don’t pay all that much attention to Broadway goings-on, but the hoopla over Rebecca: The Musical has absolutely piqued my interest. Enou...
Monday, October 22, 2012

What ho, Jeeves! The butler’s still doing it.

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While the global economy continues to suffer, making stutter-steps, at best, towards recovery, there are certainly pockets of prosperity. Th...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Zimny Sweep

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I suspect that when Mark Zimny hung out his shingle at Ivy Admit Consulting Associates  -  “the worldwide leader in Business School and comp...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Red all about Dit. (Michael Brutsch finds out the hard way.)

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Reddit is one of those Internet things that I was vaguely aware of and kinda/sorta knew what it was, but had not to my knowledge ever visit...