The retail market is tough! We’ve all seen the much-publicized closures over the past few years and recently even more major retailers have begun to pull the plug.

You know that new car smell that everyone loves? How about the feeling of cracking open a book for the first time? Maybe you love peeling the plastic off a new mobile device.

I need to come clean folks. I’m guilty of one of my cardinal sins, even though I’ve repented my old ways. I too had an office and worse yet, had all my leaders in offices at some point.

“The old rule was to create safe, ordinary products and combine them with great marketing.” Seth Godin, from Purple Cow. For better or worse, times have changed.

Leadership can be scary but so can a lot of things in life such as raising a family, going on a first date or skydiving. As scary as those things can be, there’s no shortage of people willing to take on those challenges.

While most North American sports are in-season, baseball just wrapped up the World Series a few weeks ago and now begins their offseason.

I’m dirty. I’m sweaty I stink and I’m probably a little hungry. Most of all, I’m tired, so very tired. My hands and feet are calloused while my back aches.

“Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone."Joni Mitchell wrote that profound lyric back in 1970 but remains as true today as it was the day it first hit the airwaves.

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”Oscar Wilde. I agree wholeheartedly with one of history’s most quotable authors.