Archive for January, 2010

Yesterday I heard 75-year old John Bisagno speak to a group of pastors at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville Pastors’ Conference. Dr. Bisagno retired after 30 years of ministry at First Baptist Church Houston leading that congregation to reach thousands of people in  Houston and around the globe. While most (Continue reading…)

A handwritten thank you note is one of most classy and kind things one can do whether in a business transaction or on a personal level. I don’t care how bad your handwriting is, it’s always a pleasant surprise to receive a note from someone who went to the trouble (Continue reading…)

Since we started The A Group 9 years ago, we have been giving Christmas gifts to our clients: expensive cookies, designer pen, leather notebooks, engraved pad-folios to name a few. However none has elicit the volume of feedback through notes, calls and lots of social media mentions as this past (Continue reading…)

These are a few more pictures I took with my trusty iPhone. They are a bit random, but, again, so am I. Beautiful Repulse Bay. Who calls a place this nice “Repulse”? They call it the Chinese Riviera deservedly so. So the beach is immaculately clean. That’s because according to (Continue reading…)

Sometimes intelligent people surprise me with their lack of business acumen, marketing savvy and just even common sense. A Pastor friend of mine had been in dialogue with a service provider who came highly recommended to him. According to his sources, this business owner went to an Ivy League school (Continue reading…)

One of the most fun parts of my trip to Hong Kong was going to a street fair near my hotel. But in just a few hours after Steve Shantz, my travel companion and I made our way through the crowded fair Saturday, a man threw a bottle of acid (Continue reading…)

Sunday night as I walked through the financial center of Hong Kong, one of the most beautiful and wealthiest cities in the world, I heard what I thought was the sound of thousands of birds. As it turned out, the sound came from hundreds, if not thousands of Philippine women (Continue reading…)

After a 16-hour flight from Newark I landed in Hong Kong where my body is still trying to deal with a 14-hour time zone difference. It’s been wreaking havoc with my sleep cycle but it has been worth it. My first two days were mostly spent with the friendly TWR.org (Continue reading…)