Get to Know Me, From My Company’s Portal Blog

This month my company featured me on our portal in a blog-style interview. I thought I’d share since I haven’t posted much about work lately. Here you go:

Get to Know John Demma

Modern Machiavelli: How to be a 21st century prince without selling your soul

Genealogy, Ancestry.com, and (you probably already stopped reading)…

Nothing, and I mean nothing, puts people to sleep faster than talking about the most boring of my boring hobbies: genealogy. Of the nearly 500 people in my family tree, only two of us actually give a hoot about…

Expense Savings Go Right to the Bottom Line

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That’s the Bottom Line![/caption]

You may have heard someone say that expense savings go right to the “bottom line”. What does that mean…

3 Quick DIY Life Hacks to Save You Money

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The Great Man Myth: Or how the Simpsons and Tolstoy will calm your nerves when meeting Rick Flair

I don’t have any interest in meeting celebrities. I met Rick Flair once. He came to my bar after a night of performing at the XL Center — still had his boots and…

Strategy: Cortez the Killer

In 1519 Hernán Cortés the Conquistador led a flotilla of 11 ships to the eastern shores of Mexico against the…

Management Skills: Create Symbiosis

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Finding REMO[/caption]

That’s a picture of a cute little clownfish, we’ll call him Remo, swimming among sea anemone. Most fish would not be feeling too good right…