Rick Smith

I was talking with a friend yesterday who mentioned that before everyone left the office for the holidays, she went around to each of her employees and personally thanked them for all they had done. She remarked how positively her team reacted to this simple gesture, so much so that ...

It seems that for legal and security reasons, Barack Obama will soon be forced to give up his beloved Blackberry. Is there a chance this will make him more productive? I raise this question out of personal experience. I, Rick Smith, am a reformed crackberry addict. I would reach to my ...

In an amazing turn for recent adversaries, it seems that Obama has all but offered Hillary the most prestigious post in his cabinet - Secretary of State. A surprising offer to a woman whose foreign policy experience Obama once dismissed as having tea with ambassadors. But party faithful are now ...

OK, let me backtrack before I even begin. This is shaping up to be a deep recession and it will likely get worse before it gets better. Consumers aren't spending. Companies are laying people off by the thousands. There are real individuals out there who are hurting. Technically, we are ...