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I've just spent a week in Southern California, seeing family and helping my daughter move into her new apartment. LA traffic seems back to its ugly self and there are people out shopping like the good days--albeit with most people wearing masks somewhat correctly.   I don't think anyone here spent much

  Last week, a cinematographer on the set of a Western being shot near Santa Fe, NM was shot and killed by a gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin.   While the investigation into how this occurred is still underway, what's been revealed so far indicates this movie set was an accident waiting

  It's October. The time of year when thoughts inevitably turn to shorter days, falling leaves, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and . . . Pumpkin Spice Everything?   Pumpkin has always been associated with Fall, but we've moved way beyond Jack-O-Lanterns for Halloween and even Pumpkin Spice Latte, to pumpkin spiced muffins, cookies, ice cream,

  You'd think living in Silicon Valley it would be simple to get high speed internet connectivity.   You'd be wrong. Three times in the last three weeks Comcast has cut service for my entire neighborhood for hours at a time. No notice. No way to reach a live human being to understand

  I spent the last three days in a virtual conference for SAC, the Society for the Advancement of Consulting.   This was the second year this annual event was held virtually, because of the pandemic. The bad news: We still couldn't gather together in one place. The good news: We were able

  A lot of things are different since the start of the pandemic: how we work, how we gather with others, how we travel (or not). But one of the things most likely to remain with us after this is over is how we talk.   Whoever heard of social distancing before the

October 1, 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe SAC® Release The Best Companies Innovate for Growth, Not Just SurvivalCLAREMONT, CA— Results-based innovation has come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Society for the Advancement of Consulting® (SAC). Executives and organizations unsurprisingly moved to products and services that maintained top-line growth.

  This week, the FDA gave format approval to the COVID-10 vaccine from Pfizer.   This is big news because it means that individuals and organizations who were holding off on vaccinations (or on requiring them for their employees) now have official notice this is an approved drug.   No sooner had this been made

  The US Postal Service used to pride itself on delivering the mail anywhere, anytime, under any condition.   Those were the good old days. Over the last several years, postal service has continued to degrade. Yes, there is less paper mail being distributed, but there are plenty of packages--witness how UPS and