August can be a frustrating month for gardeners in the South. This is not planting or seeding time – especially not when the temperature tops ninety degrees! No pruning, either. Or transplanting, unless absolutely necessary. Lots of water, of course, but no fertilizing in August; new growth ... Views: 1309
New college graduates have learned that a boozy Facebook profile is not an employment recommendation, but how many senior HR executives make use of Social Media tools to find just the right candidates for the most important positions they have to fill?
There are three main reasons why the HR ... Views: 2585
Networking for Success.
It’s such an overused phrase now: “networking for success”. Everyone uses it, everyone knows that without networking there is no climb up the career ladder, no growth of one’s entrepreneurial enterprise, but do we know how to do it?
Here are the Four Immutable Laws of ... Views: 902
Earth is home to some 6.7 billion people today and is expected to have 9 billion by 2040.
Some years ago, on a visit to the Mayan ruins of Copan, in Honduras, I heard a guide say that “nobody knows” why the population, after having flourished on the site an estimated 400 years, “suddenly ... Views: 1108
It was not until friends and business associates began to ask me if I was planning to retire that I became a gardener. They had good reason to ask: I was giving up an active life in a big city (the business hub of the American south) for a downsized, but no less active, existence in the country. ... Views: 1327