Category Archives: Living in the World Today

Why I want to help Chinese companies sell products to Americans

`When I was in Hong Kong last March with my good friend Tom Eastling he offered an idea – why don’t you help Chinese companies market their goods and services into the United States? The moment he said it I … Continue reading

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Social Security – are you counting on it?

An article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal highlighted http://on.wsj.com/hW9aGd something I (and many people like me) have been thinking for a long time. Although we’ve been paying into the Social Security program for more than 30 years (hey we … Continue reading

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March Madness equals a drain on worker productivity – or does it?

The NCAA basketball tournament begins this Thursday (or Tuesday/Wednesday if you count the new 2 games pre-tournament tournament to get from 68 teams to 64 teams). I always enjoy the NCAA tournament and in particular the Thursday and Friday games … Continue reading

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Why don’t the best and brightest want to teach?

Our daughter is a high school senior and interested in becoming an elementary education major (a teacher) when she begins college this fall. When she told my wife and me this nearly a year ago, we were very happy and … Continue reading

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Do you have Klout or are you a Twitalyzer?

If you’ve been paying rapt attention to the social media space, then perhaps you are aware of http://www.Klout.com and/or http://www.Twitalyzer.com (I was aware of the former but not the latter). The sites offer you a measure of your social ‘influence’. … Continue reading

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Does the Groundhog know anything else besides predicting the weather?

I’m not sure I would trust anything Puxatawney Phil or Staten Island Chuck would ‘say’. After all The National Climatic Data Center believes the Groundhog prediction rate to be around 39% accurate. http://bit.ly/b1kIua – which would be good if you … Continue reading

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Why should the Mets owners the Wilpon’s have known about Madoff?

It’s no secret that New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and his son Jeff have had ‘Madoff’ problems since the scandal broke a year and a half ago. Longtime friends and associates of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, the Wilpons had … Continue reading

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MySpace – is it going no place?

One report had MySpace with 66 million users as of June 2010. Another had MySpace with 110 million people that are monthly active users on MySpace.com including 1 in 4 Americans. While those numbers pale in comparison to Facebook’s nearly … Continue reading

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Jack Ma and Alibaba.com are forces to be reckoned with in China

With Chinese President Hu Jintao in the United States this week there was much talk about the state of Sino-U.S. relations. My interest in developing our company’s Chinese business has me keeping a watchful eye for business and marketing news … Continue reading

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Commuting in the United States by train – why does it have to be like 1961?

Having opened an office in lower Manhattan in November I have joined the ranks of commuters from the New York City suburbs even it if is only two or three days per week. Because I have not commuted to New … Continue reading

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