If you’re like most Texans, the word concierge refers to the stuffy guy behind the front desk at that luxury hotel you stayed in on that vacation. Indeed, that guy is a concierge but that’s not the extent of the word’s meaning.

The oxymoron is still one of the more interesting twists of language. It takes one word (or phrase, if we must be so technical) and defiantly places it next to a contradictory word (or phrase), then forces the whole thing to have an actual meaning!

From the minute we discovered we could document information, the trees were doomed! Well, we started by desecrating other surfaces: sand, rocks, you know, anything the caveman could scratch on or pee on.

The question of automation comes up from time to time in various businesses and industries: When to automate, what to automate, how exactly to go about it, and whether to automate at that point in time in the first place.

It is a well-tested fact that the most valuable resource in business and in life is time. To many, including yours truly once upon a time, money would appear to be the most important one of them all since it can buy practically all other resources.

For many small businesses and budding entrepreneurs, the harsh realities of running a business are only too familiar. There always seem to be bills to pay, while very little, if any, funds seem to be incoming. But it is a well-known fact that in order to make money, one must spend money. Still, there must be a smarter way; a less extravagant way to do exactly what is needed without wasting those scarce resources.

America has earned the reputation for being one of an industrialized nation with one of the highest degrees of imbalance between work and value created, a.k.a. productivity. Most people have to put in more than 40 hours each week just to keep the lights on.

The new generation of businesses is doing things differently. They are lighter. They are faster. They use more data and, somehow, less paper. Modern businesses are breaking ties with tradition whilst embracing disruption, the ever-constant eventuality in any dynamic system.