Business Mentors

The Importance of Teams and Trust

As the leader of a fast-growing company that assists clients with their technology requirements, I operate in an environment that continually changes. Today’s questions very quickly become yesterday’s Read More

A Higher Hurdle Imposed for ADA Plaintiffs in Second Circuit

It just became a bit more difficult for plaintiffs within the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes New York state) to succeed on disability-discrimination claims brought Read More

Viewpoint: Companies are creating healthier worksites to help improve employee well-being

Throughout my career, I’ve learned from employers and employees about worksite hurdles — those issues or hassles that prevent employees from being engaged, successful, and happy at their jobs. To help Read More

Viewpoint: What is Your One Reason Why You are in Business?

In the 1991 movie “City Slickers,” the cowboy Curly Washburn — played by Jack Palance — tells Billy Crystal’s character, Mitch Robbins that “like so many others, you just don’t get it in life.” The se Read More

Searching Low and High for Leadership

Leaders we can look up to are all too hard to find these days. Read More

The Business of Creating Cozy

The story of A Cozy Hearth Fireplace & Stove Read More

New York’s green new dud

New York produced less electricity from renewable sources in 2018 than it did the year before despite significant intervention by state government. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Public Service Commission ( Read More