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5 Warning Signs Your Employees Have Stopped Caring – Michael and Bonnie interview for Inc. Magazine

How can you tell when you’ve lost the confidence, commitment, andengagement of your employees? The signs aren’t always overt, warn Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, co-founders of Barefoot Wine (now part of E&J Gallo), and co-authors of the new

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Five lessons from watching Sam Walton selling an ironing board cover by Paul Smith

By Paul Smith, Cal Entertainment Exclusive Speaker Much has been studied about Sam Walton’s retail genius. But here are five simple lessons you can learn just from watching him sell an ironing board cover. . . The grocery retail chain H.E. Butt was founded in 1905 in San Antonio, Texas. Today H-E-B is one of

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Darren Kavinoky’s Top 10 Takeaways from his latest TV show “Breaking Point” on ID

By Darren Kavinoky Perhaps I’m just suffering from one of the Deadly Sins (like pride), but I really loved doing Breaking Point for Investigation Discovery. People have known me as a criminal defense attorney and TV legal analyst for a long time; what many didn’t know, because it often wasn’t relevant to my work providing “expert

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The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center names Jason Latimer Curator of Impossible Science and welcomes him back for his live science and magic show, “Perception: See Beyond the Illusion.”

The magic is back in San Diego! Jason Latimer, the World Champion of Magic and judge on Syfy’s “Wizard Wars,” returns with a new role at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and a special limited-engagement of performances in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater. Jason’s research and university lectures on the topics of invisibility, teleportation,

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Two Bit Circus on AdWeek: How Oculus Rift Is About to Reshape Marketing Creativity

By Christopher Heine for AdWeek. Photo: Maciek Jasik Nancy Bennett is a virtual-reality marketing veteran. (Yes, such people actually exist and are about to become hot commodities among talent recruiters.) In the mid-2000s, Bennett had her avatar boots on the Internet-code-built ground ofSecond Life, constructing cyber experiences for her employer at the time, MTV Networks. Of

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Mario Cuomo – One of the Greatest Orators in American History

“Words That Shook The World”: The Mario Cuomo Chapter In 2001, I had the privilege of spending an hour with Governor Mario Cuomo in his office in New York to speak with him about his amazing July 16, 1984 Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention. I had chosen this speech as one of the

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The Incredible Story Of Starting The World’s Largest Wine Brand, Barefoot Wines

By Robert Reiss for Forbes I was recently speaking with Michael Houlihan, co-founder of Barefoot Wines. This is the story of how two people overcame remarkable odds and built a beloved brand that transformed the wine industry. It is hard to believe that such an iconic brand as Barefoot Wines began in a laundry room of

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