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About six months after Australia released its new 50-dollar bill, and 46 million of the bank notes had been circulated, it was found that there were multiple misspellings and typos on the new bill. A national embarrassment. Granted, the mistakes weren’t too easy to...

I have a dear friend named Russ Jefferies. He happens to also to be my HVAC guy. I’ve always wondered what HVAC means. Heating. Ventilation. Air Conditioning. I could write a book about Russ. I’d call it Russ’s Way. It would become a national bestseller. Because,...

I have a dear friend named Russ Jefferies. He happens to also to be my HVAC guy. I’ve always wondered what HVAC means. Heating. Ventilation. Air Conditioning. I could write a book about Russ. I’d call it Russ’s Way. It would become a national bestseller. Because,...

I have a great mentor, friend and supporter of our youth leadership programs that lives in Texas. Not many successful businessmen in the world are as humble, caring and genuine as my friend. Last month I asked my friend to sponsor an inner-city kid from Dallas to...

I’m on an airplane a couple hundred times a year. Been doing this most of my career… and I’ve seen it all. Delays, cancelations, medical emergencies, crew no-shows, turbulence, crying babies, mechanical failure… you name it… I’ve experienced it! But what happened on...

I’m on an airplane a couple hundred times a year. Been doing this most of my career… and I’ve seen it all. Delays, cancelations, medical emergencies, crew no-shows, turbulence, crying babies, mechanical failure… you name it… I’ve experienced it! But what happened on...

I remember the first time that I got fired from a job. It was back in high school. I worked as a lifeguard at the town pool in Suffern, New York. Mrs. Bueno was my boss. She and her husband, Mr. Bueno, were physical education teachers during the school year and ran...

My weight has been a yo-yo my entire adult life. Up ten pounds. Down ten pounds. Up fifteen. Down fifteen. Up twenty. Down twenty. Maybe because I’ve spent so much time on airplanes the last twenty-five years of my career. My closet has three sets of suit pants:...

Four years ago, I wrote a BLOG about the general manager of a little Italian restaurant in Toronto, Canada. Little is not an accurate word. Perhaps to describe the size – only 121 total seats. But it does not describe its’ volume – probably the busiest restaurant in...