I recently met with an entrepreneur who has an incredible product to offer the water conservation industry. As he quickly started rattling off schedules of ownership and budgets, I had to stop him because I wasn’t yet interested in the numbers or percentages involved. First, I wanted to determine whether I thought that both he

It’s often said that “timing is everything” (which is now even the title of a popular song). And we often see examples that seem to bear that out – instances where the timing of a particular endeavor spelled the difference between success and failure. But just how important is timing in the realization of our

In a blog I posted a few months back, I announced my intentions to focus some of my efforts on the problem of food waste – all that perfectly good, nutritious food that ends up being tossed in the garbage while millions of families in this country don’t have enough to eat.  To this end,

In my previous blog, I put forth the premise that companies should stop focusing on the one-dimensional idea of “going green” and concentrate instead on the goal of achieving sustainability, which involves a three-dimensional focus on the ability of people, the planet and profit to all survive and thrive. Now I’d like to carry this

Lately, I have started rethinking the value of businesses “going green.” When companies spend money to make their products or manufacturing methods “greener,” but find consumers are reluctant to pay a corresponding “green” surcharge, what they have done is to substitute one form of green – the environmental kind – for another — the monetary

As I’m writing this, yet another Earth Day has rolled around – but I must admit that this year I’m seeing things from a somewhat different perspective. That is to say, I’ve come to the conclusion that merely focusing on “pure” sustainability efforts is currently the wrong approach to preserving the planet. While it has

Recently I was talking with a friend about his business and couldn’t help asking him why his expectations for it were so low. It made me realize how important it is for us to set our sights high and not put limits on what we expect to accomplish, because, quite frankly,  if you can’t visualize

This past week I was visiting with an old colleague who was contemplating a career change. He was especially interested in a particular opportunity that had arisen, but didn’t feel he had the right qualifications. So I told him a favorite story of mine about one of our top guys at Greenopolis who took it

I recently attended a major meeting where there was a lot going on. The next day three of us who were there did independent recaps. I did mine last, without knowing what the other two had said. The report I ended up turning in was not so much content-related as an appraisal of how I

As an ‘early-to-rise’ type of individual, I like nothing better than to get up at the crack of dawn and have breakfast to the accompaniment of the birds. In fact, I’m usually at my best about the time when other folks require two or three cups of java to wash away the cobwebs, and love