When the Show Must Go On …

The City of Chicago’s recently decided to move the annual fireworks display out of Grant Park and push back the date from July 3rd to July 4th. This was in part to cut costs; but also an effort to scale back the event so that it’s not such a security concern. Will Chicago’s decision be a case study for how slashing your budget can solve an immediate problem while creating a long-term problem at the same time? Or, will it be be heralded as one of the greatest cost-cutting moves/compromises of all time? What do you think?
Switch: A Framework for Making Change

I know that I’m reading a really great book when I keep nodding at each page, “yes, yes, exactly…” The authors are telling me something that I knew intuitively, yet somehow they have given voice to that hunch and even explained it with elegance. That’s exactly the experience I had while reading “Switch” by Chip and Dan Heath.
Ten Things I Learned from Donald Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”

After reading Donald Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” cover-to-cover over the course of a long weekend (I could hardly put it down at points) I’m now soaking in some of these lessons. I know that my story will be different for having read it. Here’s ten things I learned from this book.
Economic Forecast 2010

In the last week I have attended two different economic forecast presentations, where I heard 4 different economists and prognosticators describe what the see in the year ahead for the US and world economies. I am not an economist and so what I’ve written here is my interpretation of what they predicted, not predictions of my own.




