If everything related to business on the Net weren’t turning topsy turvy every six months or so, Riding Venture Capital from High Tech Start-Up to Breakout IPO ($27, Bloomberg Press, Nov. ’99), would be destined to become a classic how-to on the level of The Joy of Cooking. But with things spinning at Net speed, ...Read More
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We’ve all read the research that shows the benefits of cross training and we’ve heard the stories about athletes who achieve incredible success by cross training in the “off” season.
A Pilates-based program, as with many other club programs, will most likely succeed or fail based on its instructors. Enthusiasm, hands-on training and varied experience are key factors to keep in mind when you’re searching for an instructor. It is not critical for instructors to be intimately familiar with the commercial club environment. Although you ...Read More
President George W. Bush, bowing to Democratic pressure for new health insurance regulations, urged passage of a “patients’ bill of rights” as one of his top three priorities for July. “The Congress must act on a patients’ bill of rights, a good patients’ bill of rights, one that recognizes patients are important, not lawyers,” Bush ...Read More
Grey recently made an entrance at a staff meeting with a well-executed cartwheel and a big smile. She’d taken a piece of Halloween candy from a colleague who jokingly asked her to perform a trick for her treat. “So I did — and it was fun and totally unexpected,” she says. “It wasn’t particularly businesslike, ...Read More
Did your doctor give you another prescription, this time for tramadol? So the doctor thinks a different drug will work to ease your pain, but who has money to try out another expensive prescription? Your anxiety is understandable.
So does Murphy-Baran feel compelled to join in and to be one of the guys? “No way,” says Murphy-Baran, senior vice president of market development at NFL Enterprises (the new business and new technology arm of the National Football League). “There’s no way I’m going to start throwing a ball around. I’d look foolish,” she ...Read More
If your workplace is predominately male, going to work each day may feel a little like climbing into a spaceship and blasting off to an alien planet. Even the language can throw you. In business-speak, men are assertive and women are aggressive. Men are proactive. Women are bitchy. And men are confidently determined while women ...Read More
Digital backwaters are going straight to wireless, leaving the hassle of upgrading legacy copper systems behind. As developing economies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America enter the Digital Age, they’re going to need networks that carry data and voice. Just don’t expect land lines to bear the load.
In Conclusion: When I started this article, I had no idea just writing about these trees would bring profound thoughts and yet here I sit, awestruck. Like Bobby Lake-Thom so eloquently put it, “I have learned from my elder mentors that a closer relationship to Nature does indeed bring meaning to our lives.”