Fortune Small Business has an interesting article about dispensing advice and vaccines for world travelers. While running health services at the University of Baltimore in the early 1990s, Fran Lessans met a law student who was petrified about the prospect of attending her mother-in-law’s funeral in Ghana. The young woman had visited the country once […]
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CBS News reports that small business could feel the most pain from the H1N1 flu virus. In Boston, the Port Authority is training extra workers to operate snowplows – following concern regular drivers will get sick. And in Malibu, Calif., one restaurant is giving its employees vitamins and wiping down every door knob every two
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Reader’s Digest has an interesting story about former spy, now entrepreneur, Greg Quinn. A tall, brawny Irish American walks into your office, puts a crystal goblet on the desk, and pours out a serving of a deep-purple nectar. “This stuff used to be illegal,” he says in a gravelly voice. “We’re the guys who got
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photo credit: mikebaird Forbes.com: Crushing economic pressure on your business, unrelenting competition, crazy work hours, downsizing, slashed budgets, uncertainty. Almost every organization has been trying to do more with less lately, and it’s taking a toll. Executives and middle managers alike are exhausted by their brutal schedules and the intense demands on them. Business leaders
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The Star Press: August Roberson is smiling a lot these days. Not only does she have more energy, but her spirits are running high. She attributes it to the healthy lifestyle she and her husband, Jason, are leading with their daughters, Jocelyn, 4, and Madelyn, 2. At the core of it is a new exercise
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CNNMoney: Johnny Valdene and Travis Hollman were running a toy company that sold $6 million in marshmallow shooters every year. At a trade fair in New York City they saw an attendee collapsing from what looked like a heart attack. Paramedics later told them that the man had in fact suffered an anxiety attack —
photo credit: bogenfreund The thought of actually sitting down and scheduling some lazy “do absolutely nothing” time probably seems very stupid as well as a waste of time. Entrepreneurs, especially those who are constantly on the go between their company and their families, really need to schedule some time to where they just sit back,
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Time Magazine: To get in shape for her October wedding, Dawn-Samantha Cahill, 25, tried every exercise routine she could think of. Cahill was nearly ready to give up, until one day last spring, she discovered a video on YouTube about hula-hooping. “The woman in the video was so sexy, and the moves she was making
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photo credit: notsogoodphotography One of the interesting things about coaching is how much you learn about yourself in the process of working with clients. Many of the executives I coach are facing the same issues as me, albeit on a much larger scale: they are in a perpetual state of overload and stress from
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