Thanks to fellow Senior Management Team members Julie Coates and Greg Marsello for making LERN the largest continuing education association in the world, and the leading organization in education. It's Fiscal New Year's Eve for LERN. And we have just hit an all time record income. We've waited 40 years to hit $3,000,000 income.  MORE >>

Non-union organizations are more likely to offer telecommuting than those with unions. ? Teleworker, knowledge worker, job creator = all the same.  Here's a profile of the average teleworker. Over 75% of employees who work from home earn over $65,000 per year, putting them in the upper 80 percentile relative to all employees. ? MORE >>

young man in our community asked Julie and TAP, our local progressive organization, about working with young people on creating a rental store.  Here's a related business concept to excess capacity, called collaborative consumption. Whenever you need something, you rent it instead of buying it.  This is a great exciting new idea. MORE >>

Here's an email this week from Paul Gilfe, a civic leader in a statewide organization called Civic Caucus. Thanks to several people new to us for telling us about Nine Shift's influence on them. . Apparently, Nine Shift gets passed around by word-of-mouth, which is very gratifying. But I only quickly skimmed the book at that time.  MORE >>

Don't forget to tell your organization or state/national association about Nine Shift. "You were on fire," said Terry Newman of Gilroy, CA, about our latest speech, 'Nine Shift for 2013: The Great American Comeback.'  A packed ballroom in Washington DC at the annual LERN conference gave us a great reception. So thanks to you all ! MORE >>