There’s no rule that says you have to answer when opportunity knocks. But that doesn’t mean you won’t lose, especially if the competition is busily opening every door possible.
Despite the gloomy state of economic news, many (including Kevin Coupe and me in our regular columns) have been urging you on to find opportunity. Sometimes [...]

March 19, 2009

Smart Strategies to Eat Well and Spend Less (Part 2)
The second of two installments shows how eating healthy on a budget is easier than you may expect… More on this story »

Omega-6 Fatty Acids Good for Heart Health
New research supports adding omega-6 fatty acids to the diet to reduce heart disease risk… More on [...]

This week, 60 Minutes took cameras someplace they had never gone before. Don’t use your imagination on that for too long—the destination wasn’t all that exotic. It was the office building in Washington, DC, that houses the Federal Reserve Board.
As 60 Minutes explained, the chairman of the board never, ever gives interviews. (Well, actually [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to last week’s column. I thought I had written a really nice article about intangibles and the skills we wish could be measured, but can’t. And after using an example of a professional basketball player, I offered up examples of the same in this industry.
Then something happened. [...]

We had a great day at Expo West yesterday.  It started out with a rousing presentation in the morning by the Natural Business Journal that is predicting continued growth for the Natural Products Industry for 2009.  Patrick Rea, NBJ’s editorial director explained that they “don’t expect the market to contract in 2009 or 2010″ and [...]

Fishing for a Better Mood
New research shows that a daily dose of fish oil can help reduce mild to moderate depression in women entering menopause… More on this story »
Headache Relief in a Root
Support of kudzu is growing—as an option for hard-to-treat cluster headaches… More on this story »
Choose Low-Impact Exercise for Joint Health
People with osteoarthritis in [...]

There’s an old saying that what gets measured, gets done. But what if there is a problem with the measurement?

Think about all the ways we judge whether someone has done a good job and then ask, do we really know? What if the way we measure success somehow warps what we think?

A recent on-line article [...]

In the universe dominated by talking heads, there is a very strange question rearing its head: Is it possible that today’s economic crisis is actually good for us? Don’t laugh too quickly. The point has some merit if we see this as the moment that Americans (and presumably others on this planet) start relearning [...]