Adam R. Kahn serves as Group Event Director, Project Summit & BusinessAnalystWorld, as well as Publisher of BA Times for Diversified Business Communications (DBC). A graduate of Northeastern University (M.S., 1996) and Hofstra University (B.A., 1993) Mr. Kahn joined DBC in 2006. Over his career he has spent the past 11 years working in event, conference and publishing management capacities at IIR, IMARK Communications and Key3Media (formerly ZD Events) managing a variety of industry specific brands/products including: ProjectWorld, Symposium on Healthcare Design, Projects@Work, Linux Business Expo, ASP Summit, COMDEX, Networld+Interop. Prior to his event and conference experience, Mr. Kahn worked in Student Affairs managing student activities, residential life, judicial affairs, and career services at several New England based Universities and Colleges. 
I know from experience that this time of the year can be stressful! Sure, there are wonderful memories about to be made and lots of great food to be eaten, but the bottom-line is it's stressful, whether it's having the family over for dinner or finalizing your 2010 budgets and strategic goals.
Although it seems like things tend to slow down at the office, I've got budgets, strategy and a ton of "catch up" work to be done. It always seems like I look at December as my time to get my head back above the water line, so to speak. I challenge myself to clear the inbox, organize and set goals and priorities for next year and try to take advantage of the slower pace of the season - although work still needs be done and deadlines need to be met. Couple that with personal obligations around the holidays and it seems that all that extra time is disappearing before I even get to take advantage of it. Where does the time go? For that matter, where the hell did the year go? I can't believe we're headed into 2010! It seems like yesterday when we were all worried about Y2K. Has it really been 10 years?!
Where am I going with my blog? I haven't got a clue and I guess that's the point! Some times it good to just reflect on your accomplishments and dial down the stress (even though we've got so much of it these days). So, with my typical rant, I just wanted to wish everyone in BA Land a wonderful Holiday Season and Happy New Year! We've almost made it through 2009 and with the kind of year it's been, that's an accomplishment in and of itself. Here's to a merrier and more successful 2010!!
Thanks for subscribing to BA Times and for making it the leading BA online community. We couldn't have done it without you and I just want to say thanks! We look forward to your feedback, involvement and dialogue. 2010 has a ton of exciting new additions coming to BA Times, so stay tuned and keep reading!
Warm Regards,
Publisher, BA Times
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Adam R. Kahn is Publisher of Business Analyst Times.
written by Enrique Galvez-Durand, December 09, 2009
You've made me remember that 10 years ago, many of us were involved in Y2K projects, WOW. Developing recovery plans, checking servers, networking, applications and other devices (included microwave owens :), being pending of our peers in New Zealand (the first ones to turn to 2000) and with beepers, cellulars and sattelite phones ready to answer.
Regards
Enrique
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written by Paul Mulvey, January 04, 2010
The answer...both.
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