From The Brain Bucket

Veterans Day – One Man’s Perspective

Everyday I get up and run my business without a second thought and on weekends I get to ride anywhere my mood takes me. Freedom is a wonderful thing and all too easily taken for granted. My Dad fought in WWII making him part of the ‘Greatest Generation’. He was a ...

Entrepreneurs don’t flock, sheep do…

I just read a press release disguised as an article on a new website that “is an integrated web portal that allows people with innovative ideas, talents, and skills to connect with like-minded individuals across the globe to help cultivate those ideas into successful business enterprises.” Can someone tell me what the ...

To Think or Not to Think…

If you want to know there’s a God, saddle up with four close friends on a clear crisp Saturday morning at sunrise and hit the road. There’s nothing like feeling the cold air in your face while the sun comes to your left splashing bright orange and blue across the ...

The Death of Mickey

I just read a very interesting article in the New York Times about how the brain trust at Disney is considering an image makeover for Mickey Mouse. They are completely re-thinking his personality, what his house looks like and even how he interacts with children. “The first glimmer of this ...

The Challenges of Entrepreneurship in Today’s Economy

It appears that as a whole, we’ve adjusted mentally to the current economic situation and fear has been replaced with disappointment and resentment. Lots of 20/20 hindsight by the more mature business crowd wishing they’d have made this move or that. And the younger crowd is more resentful for the ...

Is it the economy or you?

Certainly today’s economic environment is a difficult one. In most cases, rapid growth is a thing of the past and success in business today means grinding it out, day in and day out. However, these difficult times can also be a false crutch for sub-par performance. I’ve recently been called back ...

I’m in a New York State of Mind

It’s 7:00 a.m. and I’m watching the sun come up over Manhattan from my room in the W Hotel in Hoboken New Jersey. I’m here for meetings later with my publisher and even though I’m not in New York proper, I have the perfect view of it all. Directly across the ...

Why Life is Like a Baby In a Swing

The reason life is like a baby in a swing is because if all you do is push, the swing eventually leaves your hands, flies over the bar and hits you in the butt, injuring both of you. In other words, for a happy baby/life you must know when to ...

The Most Powerful Age Group in Business Today

For most of this year I’ve watched a very interesting trend in business, the changing of the management guard. Or as I call it – The Rise of the Thirty-Somethings. On the surface you may think that companies are replacing their older managers for purely economic reasons – younger is cheaper. ...

A tale of two 9-11s

To be sure, we all know where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001 as everyone was deeply affected by the tragedy and loss of life. And, having never experienced a terrorist attack on our own soil, the country threw itself into the equivalent of neutral ...