Posts in the "Business" Category

  • CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a feature on this year’s Detroit Auto Show, highlighting the new push for quality and teamwork.  It was so exciting to watch how executives and union workers alike reported that “lessons had been learned.”  The result?  The new head of Chrysler,  Sergio Mechionne, the CEO of Fiat, told CBS, “Product [...]

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  • Last week I met for holiday lunch with some truly distinguished professional friends of mine and we put aside the usual boundaries of business to share our biggest challenges and vow to support each other as entrepreneurs this coming year.  In general, business networking is a time when you concentrate on your strengths and act [...]

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  • My brother Bill loves to restore cars and a few years ago he took on the project of restoring my grandfather’s 1929 Chevrolet.  I’m not surprised by his passion, since we grew up in Detroit and our parents worked in the auto industry.  Bill got a technical degree in engineering and followed my father’s footsteps [...]

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  • I often attend lectures at the National Writers Union to keep up with the publishing industry and recently heard  New York Times Bestselling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry speak about his career. Described as writing “…in the grand poetic horror tradition of Poe..” by his contemporary Stuart Kaminsky, Maberry detailed the [...]

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  • I’ve always used chain pharmacies for medical prescriptions and was usually satisfied.   But I recently tried using my neighborhood chain in Brooklyn for what I thought would be a routine fulfillment and it quickly turned into a major production.  The first pharmacist on duty I talked to claimed that she couldn’t  get a response from [...]

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