Lying to and generally abusing customers has been around as long as business has been in business, but we seem to have reached a point at which we are…

I spent last week in Germany and The Netherlands, and as with any trip abroad I found it fascinating how other societies and political systems work. L…

Once again we’re coming up on holiday season, and once again we have a bunch of retailers and toy manufacturers who tried to guess the latest trend in…

A while back I described a conversation, albeit one-sided, that I had with my mother in-law regarding desired features in a home. As is usually the ca…

Several of us often comment, or lament, the term “lean and mean.” Real lean is definitely not mean, although we appreciate the desire of journalists a…

Boy those guys at Motorola really know how to run a business. Several months ago we told you about their “strategy” that included whacking R&D and…

I consider myself lucky in many respects, not the least of which is the fact that I live in one of California's premier wine-producing regions wit…

James Weldon Johnson was quite the Renaissance man, if ever there was one. A poet and a lawyer, a politician and a songwriter, and a first rate educat…