MONEY NOTES: Roaring U.S. Markets hit by virus fears
The major stock market indexes all dropped on news of the coronavirus. One reason is the effect on the GDP in China. In 2003, the SARS virus outbreak…
Month: March 2020
FIRE movement promotes extreme savings, early retirement
A relatively new financial movement aims at financial independence and early retirement, sometimes extremely early retirement. And that’s the name of the…
How one product ended an art form
For thousands of years, possibly in every culture, humans carried cloth handkerchiefs. They were the privilege of wealthy humans. Evidence of…
Every time you write Kleenex, a lawyer gets his wings
In 1920, Kimberly-Clark, a Wisconsin paper company, became the first to offer a disposable handkerchief. They called it Kleenex. Now a lot of people call…
Kleenex: A market finds the product
For centuries in the West, ladies tucked their neatly pressed and embroidered handkerchiefs into their sleeve or purse. And, eventually, men arranged…
Generation Z: A workforce like no other
Generation Z (ages 18-22) is in the workforce. The hypervisual, technological natives see little, if any, distinction between working at home or office,…
Leaders: Formed by the crucible
The late scholar Warren Bennis, who pioneered leadership studies, believed that leaders were formed through transformative experiences — crucibles –…