Since 2007, this weekly business column devoted to mid-size and small businesses has discussed a variety of issues close to the hearts of entrepreneurs, executives, salespeople and business ...

TODAY John McIntyre takes a long whack at an ill-thought-through catalogue of usage shibboleths, to which I commend the reader. The first example he gives could use a little more illustration here.

The word fallacy is defined as "a deceptive,misleading or false notion or belief; a misleading or unsound argument; erroneous or invalid reasoning that renders arguments as logically unsound. A ...

I was fighting with my emotions. For several weeks, my wife and I had been shopping for a new car. For years I had resisted getting a minivan. But with four kids, resistance was now futile. So, after ...