Why does everyone insist on using the phrase “sex, drugs and rock and roll?” To me, it has always been “sensibility, determination and rock and roll.”
I spent years around some of the most successful rock stars, producers, record company and star management personnel. The ones who were wildly successful (many of whom continue to be [...]
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Never underestimate the power of the smile in customer service. Not that I encourage this but you can almost get away with a mediocre product, service, meal, anything – when it is served with a smile.
My birthday request was simple this year, especially after renting a castle in England last year. All I asked for [...]
There’s a story on CNN.com today about internships – not for college students, but for workers 50 and over. Brilliant. Why should it be any different for anyone, age or otherwise? It all comes down to networking, finding a way to get your foot in the door, then working hard and proving the company needs you, [...]
Thanks to you, I am now officially a “Hall of Famer.” I will be inducted this fall with such incredible personalities and am humbled by it all.
When is the last time you tried something new? Something out of your comfort zone? Something that might not work but you tried it anyway?
I put a friend on the spot the other night at my husband’s retirement party – sort of blindsided her when I asked her to come up and join the roast [...]
Kill’em with kindness. You get more flies with honey. Engage the customer.
All strange things to be thinking while sitting stage side in the Hustler Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans but that’s how I think. The first five dancers to hit the main stage starred at a spot on the wall, never smiled and [...]
Spring Break has come and gone along with a few dollars out of my wallet. Charlie the Wonder Husband and I packed up the boys and headed to San Francisco last week. While Daddy worked, the boys and I hit every San Francisco landmark we could – Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito, Coit Tower, Muir Forest, [...]
As long as the work gets done, gets done in a timely manner, is quality work and keeps the ledgers on the profit side – do you care where your employees are or when they work? If so, why?
Despite the fact you really couldn’t call what I do “playing golf,” it is what I set [...]
