I used to doze off at night chanting obscure citation formatting rules from all the major players in town: MLA, APA, Chicago, even Turabian on some particularly insomnia-stained evenings. For a brief period before I fabricated some semblance of a social life, my homepage was EasyBib.com. As a law-abiding citizen who only jaywalked when a red light obstructed a closing kitty-corner Chipotle, plagiarism seemed like a surefire way to win a date with the …

Part 2: Recycling a Plant
Ok here we go. A “Part 2”. This is a very adventurous and presumptuous endeavor on my part to attempt a Part 2 of anything. Part 2 suggests that I have some loyal audience that meticulously follows my work and was left trembling in anticipation at the end of my Part 1. I think George Lucas had it right in his Star Wars chronology. Next time I’ll start a blog post …

Part 1: Recycling Plant
What’s the difference between a recycling plant and recycling a plant? Just to clarify, I am not speaking about agriculture here; in my urban Chicagoland jungle, plant means industry. As is my nature, after moving to a new location, I frenetically bushwhack through metropolitan mulch. I dodge chain restaurants like weeds (aside from Chipotle) and sniff out those hidden flowers that flash the true colors of the city.
My recent harried wanderings have …

Humor me for a small exercise in meditational zen. As you find your center and begin deep, controlled breaths, your office surrounding dissolve away. You’re transported to a rocky Andorran precipice where a sharp breeze bites at your exposed neck. Surveying the rugged landscape, you glimpse a wild horse commuting between France and Spain across the liberated terrain. As you watch the horse lightly gallop across the horizon, you can almost feel the hypnotic rumbling …

In the modern corportate environment, you often find that hackneyed and often meaningless buzzwords like cross platform and low-hanging fruit fill your pained head as you try stifle the urge to run through the office telling everyone where the can shove their action items. It can be a demoralizing experience, so when you get the chance to laugh you’ve got to take it. Here at the Bacharach Blog, we have noticed that a lot of you love our cartoon based posts …

Here at the Bacharach Blog we spend a lot of time scouring the internet looking for funny leadership and business cartoons (it counts as work here so we don’t get in trouble). When it comes to the funniest and most popular cartoons, at the moment no one can top Randy Glasbergen (Actually we mean that literally because if you type “Business Cartoons” into Google, Randy’s site is #1). Go check out Randy’s vast collection of funnies but just make sure your …