1920’s and 30’s, New York. A truly exciting era in an exciting city. The jazz age and Prohibition, gangsters and molls. But where there’s gangsters and mobsters and speakeasies and prostitution and the heavy flow of illegal booze, there’s the danger of murder. On February 26, 1931, Vivian Gordon, a Broadway Butterfly (a name given Continue reading

Based on an in-person presentation to help businesses strengthen the people in leadership roles, and to help people who want to move up (and stay up) the corporate ladder by being better leaders, authors Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood present their “Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make”. First they Continue reading

I am not familiar with author Katy Kelleher but the idea of essays on “desire and consumption” sounded really interesting. Overall, though, I was underwhelmed by this collection. The most honest aspect here was in the introduction in which Kelleher writes: “Beauty and depression are two central factors of my life.” And she goes on: Continue reading