Archive for February, 2010

Localization

Often enough, we all continue to buy into the perceived need for globalization. Yet the benefits of globalization are much more limited than many of us acknowledge. For services, I stand a proponent of globalization and globalized economies of scale as costs are cut and local wages raised. Yet in products, specifically disposable products the [...]

On Ambition

As is the case from excitement and discontent alike, ambition can be overdone. Those who are brave enough to change their path – if this is desired – in their career are faced with wonder of how to do so. The change many seek is to go independent, to work as a contractor/consultant or [...]

Crossed and Redrawn

As I sit here at the airport, I am conflicted with both sides of this coin. On the one hand, we are encouraged in life, as men, not to waver; to make decisions and take responsibility for the results of those decisions. Making a decision wasn’t a difficult task for me in the past, I [...]