Employers are very focused on 'today,' on their bottom lines. They are not doing the kind of planning needed to identify their critical needs and how mature workers can play a role in labor force shortages.

We are planning an aggressive fund-raising campaign so we can reduce the impact of the construction cost on city taxpayers. Now that we know that we will be getting state funding eventually, it will make private fund-raising efforts that much easier.

Long-range planning is not possible. It's a short-range planning situation.

Everything is going the way we are planning but until the checkered flag, you can't count on it. Today, we are extremely happy. That's what we need to be thinking about and enjoy this moment.

The growth rate in the enterprise resource planning applications market is coming down from 60 percent to 40 percent.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.