Management: Balanced Scorecard

A balanced scorecard is a management methodology that was primarily developed by Dr. Robert Kaplan of the Harvard Business School. It is “What companies should measure in order to balance the financial perspective” as stated by Dr. Kaplan. The balanced scorecard method is to clarify vision and strategy by providing feedback in two [...]

Community Growth: Public v. Private

The latest discussion that I have been contemplating is, “Who is the benefit vehicle for the growth and provisions of economic stability within a community, the public or private sector.”  This becomes even more interesting when the revenue streams are primarily ‘pass-thru’ revenues from local state and municipal government.  This question at this point is [...]

Internet: "propel the Internet forward”

Disclaimer: This is in response to an email that I received from someone in my social/political network. He has articulated several interests and ideas to me recently. This is more or less my response. In the beginning this article is about exploring the production of more content where I antagonize if this is a [...]

Business Writing: "Principles of composition” (Strunk and White).

I have been writing since I was very young, we all have.  It has taken me since I was very young to become, at my best, an acceptable writer. For years I have struggles with long perplexing sentences, comma usage and poor organization.  Sometimes I think it is not because I don’t know the rules [...]

Business: The hard determinism axiom of compensation

So many of our philosophical discussions occur at random times and often for me with my girlfriend Stacy.  Stacy is amazing at remembering terminology and concepts as we learned the academically, recalling them and applying them in our philosophical discussions whereas my strengths often come from observations, my experience, common sense and what I believe [...]