I appeared in the Lafayette Journal and Courier today. Seems they wanted to hear from members of the hometown crew that do well in business and remember where they came from. Here’s a little bit of it: She coaches businesses to succeed with less struggleBy MAX SHOWALTERmshowalter@journalandcourier.com A zeal to help businesses chart a course for the future and train, staff, plan and coach employees led Lafayette native Lalita Amos to...

I was just talking with some colleagues about the driving forces that impinge on marketing decisions. This article highlights one of those forces: government regulation. Marketing, I gather, is a heady business in China, with little of the organized licensing we have here. In a move to clean up the city’s sky scape (of a certainty, in advance of the Olympics), the government has moved to remove billboards (both legal and unlicensed):...

I got a call from a dear friend. He’s started a consulting firm after having been a senior internal training and management consultant for a multi-national firm and an attorney in private practice before that. He’s a good guy and a talented one, to boot (always wanted to work that phrase into a conversation). He was explaining that he hated what’s commonly practiced as sales and networking–that these processes leave...

This one’s wrong in so many ways. Picture this, if you will: Business law course. Taught by a judge. Student in front row. Fiddling with cellphone. Cell phone continues to ring. Student lets phone ring. And ring. And ring. Professor-Your Honor asks student to put a lid on it. Student has other plans. Professor-Your Honor confiscates phone. Class ends. Student wants phone. Professor-Your Honor says he can pick it up from the...

Please follow the train of thought, here. I’ll make sense soon, I promise (oh, you trusting souls). Last week I sent a package of lupins to my brother, Rodney in Atlanta. He’s been calling me Lupins since saw the Monty Python episode on Dennis Moore he was 10 an I was 13. He laughed like a goon when he opened the envelope. Yes, the flower Lupins. See, in these sketches, the fictional highwayman, Dennis Moore, a kind of moronic...