This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.