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Many bricks and mortar businesses are using their down time due to the Coronavirus shutdowns to clean up, renovate, organize, and do a lot of little things they could never get to because they were too busy and their stores or establishments too full. Kudos to them for trying to make the best of a…

The most successful companies are those best able to adapt to rapid change in the marketplace. It goes without saying that the last few weeks have seen a whirlwind of upheavals across the globe on numerous personal and professional fronts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the business side of things, supply chains, design chains,…

I’m a firm believer that every day when we wake, we intend to do and be the best for ourselves, our friends, our families, our communities, and for our businesses. I also believe that the start of a fresh year is a special time for reflection, renewal, and re-invigoration, both personally and professionally. What worked…

December is here, which means we’re giving the eight-count to 2017 as 2018 waits in the wings to make its appearance. It also means that all forms of media are engaging in year-end retrospectives of sorts—from the year in politics and celebrities who’ve left us, to top TV shows, films, and our favorite social media…

Do the holidays have your office, your team, or even you distracted? Has your post-Thanksgiving “hangover” morphed into a full-blown malaise as you enter the stretch run for what remains of 2017? It’s easy, quite common, and completely understandable for you and/or your team to fall off the work bandwagon for a time around the…

The “devil is in the details” is a centuries-old saying that refers to how something might seem simple at a first glance but ends up taking more time and effort to complete than first expected. Now, I may be going out on a limb here (what else would you expect from a monkey), but I have to…

It’s five years from. Like “Monkeyz Van Winkle” (Rip’s better looking, simian forebear) you wake up from a long sleep. The world around you has changed. You’ve changed. Your business has changed. CORE GAMING BACKPACK KICKSTARTER The Ultimate Gift for Gamers, the ‘Core’ Gaming Backpack is a Great Gift for Travelers, Busy Professionals, and Students…

There’s a common saying that timing is everything. I tend to agree. After all, who am I to argue with a sage pop philosopher like Alanis Morissette who wrote about the irony of bad timing in her iconic hit “Ironic” in 1995. In it, she sings that “an old man turned ninety-eight. He won the…