NYC-based Dave Bresler, a multi-talented serial entrepreneur and owner of a popular networking group, writes about how he will keep sailing on through with a smile on his face.
So, the labels “Liberal,” “Conservative,” and “Reactionary” are regularly bandied about and employed like edged weapons. There seems to be no stronger epithet these days, one of these labels in the hands of an adversary. But, let’s spend a moment examining each of them.
A Liberal, according to Webster, is someone open to new behaviors or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
The issue of civil rights has gotten a lot of play of late in the media. Police behaving like thugs, the TSA practicing "risk-based security," the right of the LGBT community to marry, the NSA listening in – all of these issues raise legitimate concerns about our relationship with authority.
It has always been a push-pull with us; there are always “bad guys” looking for an unfair advantage. On the other hand, we...
Retirement is a relatively new concept. In olden days (pre WWII), people worked until they could no longer do their jobs. Even the concept of retirement has fostered an epidemic foisted on us by (well meaning?) people to either provide for citizens in decline or to make room for the next generation. And, it can mean a number of things. People retire and then find that they need more to keep them busy and involved than golf and bagels...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana, 1905
The other day, after having commuted, on and off, for over 40 years from the Hartsdale, NY RR station, I noticed, for the first time, a plaque on a rock with the inscription, "Lest We Forget 1917-1918." The plaque, of course, was a memorial to local veterans of WWI, the seminal event of the 20th Century. And, while it is true that both the...
There has been much hoopla surrounding the construction and completion of Tower One at New York’s “Ground Zero.” It seems to me to be a modern analog to the recurring myths of reincarnation in a similar (or even identical) form.
Throughout the ages we, as a species, have been fascinated by the possibility of and the hope for rebirth. Almost every culture has believed that an immutable spirit or soul inhabits every person and has...
What is it about smiles that, at least to Americans, are so appealing? I was buying something at my local CVS and when I chanced to smile at the checkout clerk who smiled back at me with a 100 watt smile. There was no apparent flirting going on. And, while I am most certainly capable of flirting, am pretty fit, and do look a bit younger than my chronological age, I was also at least as old as her grandfather. She was just responding to...
There are books and blogs on the how-to’s of networking. You can learn the art of starting a conversation and ending a conversation. You can learn when and how to offer your business card and when not to. You can get tips on selecting a group to break into at a cocktail party and then how to break into the group. And you can get advice on how to construct your ‘elevator pitch’ and tag line.
