While not as dramatic a change as the PDA, the Internet and computer technology, the advent of 24-hour cable TV news stations ushered in significant changes in so much in our society. CNN launched in 1980 and was only available on cable. Why does that matter?...
Disneyland and Disney World recently raised their ticket prices to $95 for adults and $89 for a one-day visit to their parks. Of course they do it in part to encourage you to buy multi-day park hoppers which reduce the daily price almost in half....
Very possibly the most significant development of the last century, possibly forever, is the advent of the Internet, email and computer technology. They have dramatically changed how just about all business is done for sure. Before all this, back when I started practicing law at a...
There are a number of extraordinary technological developments that have literally changed our lives both personally and in the business world. Here let’s just ponder the cell phone/PDA. When I started practicing law, phone calls were on the phone. You had to be somewhere where a...
The Law School Admission Council reports an over 13% drop in applications to law schools this year as against last year. That's the third annual drop in a row. Roughly 56,000 have applied this year, this according to The Washington Post. As we know there are several...
Several have asked me to repost this series from my prior blog on life today vs. the world 25-35 years ago, so here we go! So much was different back when I started practicing law. Lawyers and their secretaries (that's what we called them then)...
A pro-Nazi New Jersey man, Heath Campbell, thinks the state unfairly discriminated against him when they took his child away just 16 hours after being born and previously took away his three older children. This after he named another child Adolf Hitler Campbell. The news...
Caption: SEC Chair Mary Jo White The SEC today announced that it was suspending the trading in 61 Pink Sheet traded shell companies from today through June 14, 2013. This is the second batch of suspensions, having done the same for 379 shell companies last year....
According to the Pew Research Center, in a dramatic shift over the last 50+ years, an astounding 40% of American homes with kids are now led by a mother who is the sole or main breadwinner. This includes households led by both married and single...
As I talk about in my new book, The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook, there are nine key personality traits that I believe make it more likely that you can succeed in starting and successfully growing a business. One key one: being a macromanager. This is of course...