You can't get any more boring than Al Terrisio. Al is the President and owner of Ultimate Controls. This is a real guy and a real company, but I'm changing names here. I'm not sure he would want to be the subject of this piece. Please understand - Al's a very nice guy. A good family man. Reliable. Honest. But boring. Read more...

Decades since the introduction of personal computing there are still too many business technologies that don't work. Oh, the hardware and software firms will tell you that they do. But they still don't get it. For example, go to Microsoft's support site and type in "Microsoft Word Error" (leave out the quotes). I did this and got 2,380,000 results. Is this indicative of something working? Read more...

Do you know what’s changed the most in business over the last 30 years? It’s not computers. Or phones. Or travel. Or technology. It’s business coaches. Business coaches didn’t exist thirty years ago. At least not the way they exist now. Oh I’m sure there were some super rich executives in the 1970’s living in LA and snorting cocaine who thought it would be a great status thing to have a “business coach” at their side to impress their friends. But nowadays everywhere you look there’s a “coach”. Read more...