Author: Gordon Hecht

Welcome to January, also known as Bowl Season.

There was a time, not so long ago, that we only had to remember four seasons (Frankie Valli notwithstanding).

I generally offer recommendations on how to generate more sales (aka income). Here’s some ways you can keep more dollars on those sales (aka earnings).

With just a handful of days left in the wild carnival ride called 2021, it’s time for me to unveil my predictions for 2022.

You may have heard it said in high school, college or a corporate meeting between the hoi polloi and muckety-mucks.

Starting around the day after Halloween and lasting until after the Rose Bowl, you can hear the seemingly endless droning of holiday music. The performers range from The Ray Conniff Singers to 50 Cent, all sharing their seasonal sentiments on radio stations, retail store PA systems, and of course, elevators.

You’ve finished counting the dough you made over Black Friday weekend and have torn off the next-to-last page of the Classic Cars or Cute Kittens calendar hanging in your office.

You can tell the end of the year is near by the leftover Halloween lollipops and the Christmas music playing in the Bed Bath & Beyond My Budget.

There’s been an awful lot of talk in the news and social media lately about pay rates.

Every organization needs some set of service guidelines to operate cohesively. These rules are normally set by the organizer or owner, based on their own belief systems.

Remember your first date? Whether it was with someone you knew or arranged blindly, the feeling was the same — a combination of nervousness and excitement that resulted in anxiety.

The Batman has gone through several transformations, from comic books to the 1940s movie serials to the Dark Night of this century.

Facebook blew it off the map. You probably have a Blackberry sitting in a drawer next to a jar of pennies, and a box of video cassettes you can’t bear to toss out.

This past week I was honored to have my hotel room upgraded to the Chicken Little Suite. You may remember him, the fowl who thought the sky was falling.

The old “Help Wanted” section of the newspaper has been inconsequential for many years now.  Social media, especially LinkedIn, is the home of many “now hiring” posts.

Pearl Elementary School, most of it didn’t affect me.  Yet I still carry the lessons from one dramatic event that school year into my business career.

There was a time when the country’s biggest-selling magazine was a pocket-sized digest called TV Guide.

Working the business calendar in our retail world is like running a marathon or playing double overtime in the Super Bowl.

There’s an old story about the difference in the way a sober person and an intoxicated person uses a lamp post:  Sober people use them for illumination and intoxicated people use them for support.