Business | Beth Byrnes

People and pennies

Posted on April 26, 2014 18 Comments

This week, while I watched Geoffrey repair the damaged ceiling in our house, I have been thinking a lot about business, specifically, small and medium family owned or individually owned businesses. These are the places that I particularly commit to frequenting, as they are fast disappearing. What started me thinking about it was the premiere […]

The litter of the law

Posted on February 15, 2014 10 Comments

This may ramble a bit as I spin out and organize my thoughts, free-association style. So, please indulge me. It is interesting how events conflow to produce a series of thoughts or actions related to a particular topic. Earlier this week I posted about Judgment at Nuremberg (on the occasion of Oscar-winning star, Maximillian Schell’s […]

Time is running out

Posted on November 14, 2013 16 Comments

Is this the way our democracy is supposed to work? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111 National Republicans have waged an unrelenting campaign to exploit every weakness and anachronism in our electoral system. Through a combination of hyperpartisan redistricting of the House, unprecedented obstructionism in the Senate and racist voter suppression in the states, today’s GOP has locked in political […]

Power posing

Posted on November 12, 2013 8 Comments

I spotted this article this morning: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131111000517-5670386-a-secret-to-successful-interviews?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0 In the wild, higher status animals often take expansive, open postures. To assert their rank, chimpanzees puff themselves up to seem larger. Peacocks fan their tail feathers to attract mates. We see the same displays in the human kingdom. The confident speaker strides across the stage, voice booming. […]

You, Inc.

Posted on November 6, 2013 23 Comments

Following along with a couple of themes I have touched on in this blog, including yesterday’s articles about what it takes to succeed, I want to talk about branding. Essentially one take away from the exercise of rebooting my niece’s college prep was that we re-branded her from someone who was just meandering along in […]