by John Corcoran | Dec 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you are in business today, you probably have a website or a blog. If you don’t have either, then you can check out now. Hand over the keys to your business and turn off the lights on your way out. But if you do have a website or a blog, then you probably are...
by John Corcoran | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I realized in the past year through my work with my business coach that I am a storyteller at heart. There are few things I like more than trading stories with people who are fun, funny, outgoing, and smart. I love interviewing entrepreneurs because I’ve...
by John Corcoran | Dec 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is the latest in a series on spotlights on interesting companies I’ve worked with in my small business legal practice. Diamante Public Sector Group is a Sacramento-based crisis and emergency management consulting group that has worked on a number of...
by John Corcoran | Nov 8, 2012 | Blogging, Business
There’s nothing quite as inspiring as setting an audacious goal for yourself. In the past two years, I’ve set numerous goals for myself. The biggest goal of all was quitting my job and starting my own law firm, which I accomplished in September of 2011. I...
by John Corcoran | Oct 23, 2012 | Client Spotlight, Interviews
Today I am really excited to present the first in series of short Q&A interviews with a few of my entrepreneur clients. I realized recently that it would be really interesting to do quick Q&A’s with a few of my clients, in part because many of them have...
by John Corcoran | Oct 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
The oldest living chef to earn three Michelin stars works out of a 10-seat sushi restaurant inauspiciously located next to the Tokyo subway. In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a 2011 documentary, filmmakers chronicle 85-year-old Jiro Ono, the chef of a tiny sushi-only...
by John Corcoran | Sep 14, 2012 | Business
I’ve been thinking recently about why I became a baseball fan recently after really hating baseball for a long time. It’s strange – I used to think baseball was too slow, too boring, with too little action. But that all changed a few years ago. I...
by John Corcoran | Aug 12, 2012 | Business
NOTE: this article is adapted from a guest post I recently had published on Productive Flourishing. You can check out that post here. I recently started experimenting with using different planners to organize my days and my week. For as long as I can remember, I have...
by John Corcoran | Jun 4, 2012 | Blogging, Business, Uncategorized
A little while ago, I got a blog critique from Chris Garrett.? (If you haven’t heard of Chris, he’s basically one of the leading authorities in how to use blogging effectively and to establish credibility.) I figured it had been a couple of years since I...