http://www.lscgzb.com Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-henninger-obamas-tax-morass/ http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-henninger-obamas-tax-morass/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:38 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-henninger-obamas-tax-morass/ But Warren Buffett is for the Obama proposal. Of course, he is not giving up on love giving his billions to the government to spend, he is giving them to the Gates Foundation. Apparently even he does not believe that government is the best place to invest his charitable dollars. And if there was comprehensive tax reform along the lines described, how long would it last? How long before we need to give assistance More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-henninger-obamas-tax-morass/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/views-on-why-are-women/ http://www.lscgzb.com/views-on-why-are-women/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:31:12 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/views-on-why-are-women/ As a biotech patent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 20 years, I have worked with a lot of entrepreneurs, both as outside counsel or in-house in several start up companies-up companies. Until a few years ago, I might have agreed that many women just don't want to take the big steps and make the time commitments necessary, but at least the latter point is not borne out by my experiences or More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/views-on-why-are-women/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-review-outlook-warren-buffetts-tax-dodge/ http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-review-outlook-warren-buffetts-tax-dodge/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:25:09 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-review-outlook-warren-buffetts-tax-dodge/ If you want to make the argument that corporate tax rates should be lower, fair enough. But to invoke the double taxation argument is a bit of a stretch. Corporations are either people or they aren't; the implication being that two individuals (a corporation tax rates and Buffett in this case) do not pay the sum of their two tax rates. Furthermore, to suggest that Buffett recommends an increase in taxes on 250K More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-review-outlook-warren-buffetts-tax-dodge/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-bill-schuffenhauer-olympic-bobsledder-and-his-family-pay-a-price-for-his-pursuit-of-glory/ http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-bill-schuffenhauer-olympic-bobsledder-and-his-family-pay-a-price-for-his-pursuit-of-glory/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:48:29 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-bill-schuffenhauer-olympic-bobsledder-and-his-family-pay-a-price-for-his-pursuit-of-glory/ Are you aware how much time you have to devote a day for how long to be the best of best? They train full-time, it is a tough way to make a life. His girlfriend supports him, he is a three time Olympian. He even is a silver medalist! Most Olympians I know personally train 30-40 hours a week, don't make much money, don't own a house. (I even know a two-time Olympian who is FORTY YEARS OLD and still does very More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-bill-schuffenhauer-olympic-bobsledder-and-his-family-pay-a-price-for-his-pursuit-of-glory/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-after-targeting-younger-consumers-liz-claiborne-hits-snag/ http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-after-targeting-younger-consumers-liz-claiborne-hits-snag/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:46:31 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-after-targeting-younger-consumers-liz-claiborne-hits-snag/ Like every other working woman over the age of 30, I have trouble finding well made, non-frumpy clothing that is appropriate fun team building activities for the workplace a conversative workplace. The clothing industry has abandoned us. They say we don't buy anymore. Its been said a million times and they still don't get it. Give us something to buy----and I don't mean super low waisted jeans, drindle skirts More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-after-targeting-younger-consumers-liz-claiborne-hits-snag/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-lack-of-coaching-hampers-female-executives/ http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-lack-of-coaching-hampers-female-executives/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:35:12 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-lack-of-coaching-hampers-female-executives/ One thing is readily apparent reviewing these comments: a whole bunch of you guys are threatened by ANY efforts to level the playing field. The obvious cannot be denied, women are not making it up to the higher C-levels. Some of you recognize its a problem, but others seem to relish in it. It is not that women are inherently not competent to lead, its that they're not inherently competent to compete in the ways More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/some-thoughts-on-lack-of-coaching-hampers-female-executives/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/a-commentary-on-money-lessons-for-every-high/ http://www.lscgzb.com/a-commentary-on-money-lessons-for-every-high/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:26:20 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/a-commentary-on-money-lessons-for-every-high/ We can't make it just black and white... A Person with education from branded institutes definitely has higher probability change of career starting their career with flying color.....but this effect fades away as they precede thought their career then ones job experience also counts. This is where others can catch up. But Start matter!! But you can't ignore the importance of good institutes. They also serves More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/a-commentary-on-money-lessons-for-every-high/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-cisco-to-shut-flip-camcorder-business-shed-550-jobs/ http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-cisco-to-shut-flip-camcorder-business-shed-550-jobs/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:25:53 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-cisco-to-shut-flip-camcorder-business-shed-550-jobs/ I think Cisco is right to read the writing on the smart phone regarding the Flip. Most middle class and affluent consumers prefer the much improved cameras on a good smart phone because they nearly always have their phones with them. I don't think divesting the home based business ideas networking business would be a good idea, though. Much of the growth in networking is going to be home based as people stream More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/my-analysis-on-cisco-to-shut-flip-camcorder-business-shed-550-jobs/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-teachers-are-evaluated-by-new-formulas/ http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-teachers-are-evaluated-by-new-formulas/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:54:29 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-teachers-are-evaluated-by-new-formulas/ Give a comprehensive love compatibility test every year, scored on a percentile system. Track each student's percentile (rank in regards to other students who took the test), and determine whether they rose, fell or stayed even with last year's test and with their other subjects. Smart students continuing to score well wouldn't be any better than marginal students remaining marginal. Exactly how credit is given More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/opinion-on-teachers-are-evaluated-by-new-formulas/feed/ 0 http://www.lscgzb.com/analysis-on-facebook-twitter-foursquare-and-the-terrifying-truth-about-new-technology/ http://www.lscgzb.com/analysis-on-facebook-twitter-foursquare-and-the-terrifying-truth-about-new-technology/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:54:18 +0000 admin http://www.lscgzb.com/analysis-on-facebook-twitter-foursquare-and-the-terrifying-truth-about-new-technology/ I think that many WSJ readers do not like to be controlled by government. I for one dislike apple because I do not wish to be controlled by steve jobs. I would like to be able to transfer a file to a device without itunes. apple is like the government, they think they know best and therefore wish to control all things about your device and how you experience it. The advantages of franchising with this approach More]]> http://www.lscgzb.com/analysis-on-facebook-twitter-foursquare-and-the-terrifying-truth-about-new-technology/feed/ 0