Archive for May 24th, 2007

Perhaps it is good that boutique hotels and pop-up camp grounds were not in existence during Woodstock and during the many years the Grateful Dead toured with a minor city of bedraggled hippies trailing behind them. Given the irreverent disposition of those in that supposed counter-culture crowd, such accommodations might have been torn to shreds.
Music [...]

“When Rice sat down with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who fancied himself as a ladies’ man, Aziz puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously thought was his seductive baritone. He bragged – to Western diplomats, no less – that he could conquer any woman in two minutes.”
Mr Aziz, who is married with [...]

The expat experience for women is always uniquely different than that of men. Fortunately, effective global networking can provide the trailing spouse with support and options that were never available to generations past. Blogs and email and family networks provide constant connectivity and entrepreneurial opportunities online abound.

However, the greatest resource for today’s expat woman is [...]

In discussing the importance of “culture” in a start-up, blogger and entrepreneur Rick Swier describes the underpinnings of a productive culture, enumerating key principles equally applicable to a healthy networking group.

Core to any organism is health and culture will always be a barometer of health and the viability of a network.
“…from what I have [...]