KING OF SALES
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Education, Entrepreneurship, Event
At the recent International Conference on Small Business (ICSB) World Conference on Entrepreneurship in Dublin Ireland, the Asian delegates gave Michael the nickname “King of Sales.” Now we have to laugh whenever we receive an email with the salutation, “Dear King...
DRIVE IT IN – DRIVE IT OUT!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Education, Environment, Lifestyle Blog, Political
Not everyone wants to save the parks. In California, voters soundly defeated a measure that, for the cost of a few lattes, would have funded the state parks and granted everyone free access. Why? Because many folks don’t use the parks and they think that users should...
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Education, Environment, Lifestyle Blog, Political
We play a game every morning at our house. It’s called “Find the Good News!” When we read the news of the day over breakfast, we find and share only the stories that are helpful, fun, and positive. We look for stories of success, solutions, and humanitarianism....
GRANDMA WAS RIGHT!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Article, Business Blog, Education, Environment, Lifestyle Blog
We’ve always been hikers and love to discover the true natural environment wherever we travel. We can’t wait get away from the cities and man-made “improvements” and venture off into the real world – on foot! Perhaps that is why we have always been conservationists at...
A VALID ALTERNATIVE
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Article, Business Blog, Education, Entrepreneurship, Event
Should we be teaching the mindset necessary for successful entrepreneurship beginning much earlier than college? By postponing the consideration of self-employment until after high school are educational institutions actually discouraging their students from...
YOUR BOSS IS NOT A SAFETY NET
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Article, Business Blog, Education
The more your boss trusts you, the faster you become indispensable. They want to rely on you to do your job right, and that means relatively free of errors. Sure, there are bosses that want to micromanage everything you do. Those bosses are actually preventing their...
