May 17, 2010
A Rotary Club is a lot like a business
As incoming president-elect of my Rotary Club I’m realizing, again, how much a 120-person club is like a business. We have to watch costs, generate…
May 13, 2010
A new owner and the employees
Three deals, three new owners and three sets of happy employees. The following is equally valuable for buyers and sellers. Too often there is simmering below…
May 7, 2010
Change and a Business’s Resiliency
In an excellent column in the April 6, 2010 NY Times, "Relax, We’ll Be Fine" by David Brooks, Mr. Brooks writes about how, “America’s future…
May 5, 2010
What are your odds of selling at your price?
In the 2010 decade there is a huge generational shift starting to take place. In 2008 the first “Baby Boomer” (born 1946-1964) started collecting Social…
May 1, 2010
Why work hard to benefit somebody else?
The Associated Press published a Met Life study that said 40% of American workers feel their workloads have increased in the past 12 months. When…
April 29, 2010
Was it too obvious?
I walked into the local hair cutting place the other day and received the same greeting I get every time I'm there, "Are you here…
