Mayor Mike has soared to the No. 8 spot on the Forbes list of richest Americans.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, and artist Olafur Eliasson, tour one of Mr. Eliasson’s waterfall projects, center, at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

According to Forbes, Michael Bloomberg had the biggest wealth gain of anyone on the list this year, with [...]

One of them is the history it provides of the company that we see today as Dun & Bradstreet. It’s motto is Decide with Confidence and they one of the first companies to be in the information game.In 1841, Lewis Tappan and his Mercantile Agency was the first modern credit bureau. In effect, Tappan established [...]

Il Duce means leader in Italian.
It is a term that is often applied by those that choose to influence others in a dictatorial manner.
A national franchise association assists the setting up and marketing of business format franchises in that country.
They lobby and represent the franchisors’ view and oppose franchisees when their interests are in conflict [...]

I watched the CBS broadcast of the Colonial last weekend. There was plenty of poor play, but one player hit such an awful shot that it would’ve embarrassed a hack like myself. The quick-witted Gary McCord deadpanned, “That shot was ugly, very ugly. That was Amy Winehouse ugly.” I hit the floor laughing.
If [...]

Yesterday I congratulated Trevor Immelman whole heartedly on his Masters win. What a wonderful display of talent and dedication! I was almost afraid he’d lost it on 16 at the end, but he proved that he is not a quitter and bounced back to finish at 8 under par – 3 shots ahead of 2nd [...]

At the recent onboarding conference I spoke at in Atlanta, I had the opportunity to listen to some great examples of companies that get concepts such as ‘It’s About the Experience’ and ‘What’s The Emotional Take Away?’
At the conference, Diana Oreck, vice president of Ritz-Carlton’s Global Learning & Leadership Center, shared how their employee orientation [...]

Google will stop at nothing in its quest to index the world’s information. Last year it ate through 100 exabytes of data, but there’s still a lot that it can’t get access to. Known as the deep web (or hidden web, or invisible web, etc.), it is estimated that the majority of online [...]

Here it is – my favorite weekend of TV watching all year.
The Masters.
What I love most about this tournament on TV is watching the creativity that these guys have to exhibit around the greens . . . and on the greens. And we all can learn a lot from watching how the best players [...]

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