Today, March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation. In the Christian tradition, this day marks the visit by the angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary, telling her that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and she would bear a son named Jesus. “He will be great,” Gabriel said, “and will be called the…
There’s a myth that entrepreneurs and small business owners are people who love risk. Actually, we don’t. We assume risk, sure. But mostly, we try to mitigate it. We do everything we can to make sure our next venture or product offering will be successful, fully aware that not everything we try will be. We’re…
In September 2007, my business-partner husband and I were in London, UK. We had just arrived from Chennai, India, after a visit to our offshore production team. We were spending a few days in the city before heading north to my aunt’s bed and breakfast in Yorkshire. I remember sitting on the bed in our…