Key Principles Successful mergers and acquisitions are not particularly rare, but the degree of success as (measured by productivity) can be enhanced by adhering to a few elementary principles. The core organization must have a solid foundation, and at the same time be flexible enough to deal with the myriad of changes that will come ...
MY BAND IS SELECTING A NAME. WHAT CAN WE DO TO SEE IF THE NAME IS ALREADY BEING USED BY ANOTHER BAND? This is, undoubtedly, one of the questions I am asked most often. Before investing money and effort in your band name, put some effort into researching whether the name is in use elsewhere. ...
In the interest of disclosure, I will state for the record that I am not fond of any large scale charity. I understand that it takes paying people to ensure the job gets done, but donations are more than money; they are time. Large scale charities often pay people to run the charity, when those ...
Mary Kay Inc., the Dallas-based cosmetics company, quietly filed a civil suit in the Federal District Court of Texas against La Salle, Illinois residents Scott and Amy Weber and their company, Touch of Pink Cosmetics. Touch of Pink resells Mary Kay products on the internet. The suit alleges tortious interference with current and prospective contracts, ...
Is it not the ultimate in the ridiculousness™ of capitalism to think that you can actually “own” a word or phrase? Former overrated basketball coach Phil Jackson is said to have registered the word “threepeat” before Michael Jordan and those other guys wearing red shorts in Chicago won their third straight NBA championship. Therefore, every ...
The SPAM in this article isn’t about the “unsolicited commercial advertisement distributed online” that we’re all too familiar with. (About.com). Instead, it’s about another SPAM- the original SPAM, I might add, that celebrates its 70th Anniversary this year. (Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Since 2007 is also the Chinese Year of the Pig (Boar). You ...
Recently one of my family members fell while walking and injured her face, including crazing her front teeth. She created a mental image for me of crazing when she said it is “similar to crazing in an old china dish.” She previously used, and felt it was very beneficial, Arm & Hammer’s Age Defying toothpaste ...