“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand,” said Randy Pausch in his book The Last Lecture, a book based on a speech he delivered at Carnegie Mellon University while battling the cancer that would eventually take his life. He stressed the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling dreams, [...]

As I was reading the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register this morning, it seemed as though all of the lead stories focused on the doom and gloom of our economy and the market slump.
When talks of a recession start swirling around, some companies react by tightening their belts, and [...]