November 9, 2017
When Trump and Liberals Agree
What interesting times we live in, as people in every generation have said. What spurs this thought is the New York Times coming out in…
November 7, 2017
Political Shenanigans and Business Buy-Sell
In the recent news is the story of how Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was removed from office based on corruption charges and not being…
November 2, 2017
Urgency and the Government’s Pace
At the annual conference for the Society for the Advancement of Consulting I once again heard about how speed matters, i.e. have urgency. Also, how…
November 2, 2017
Growth by Acquisition Story
In my upcoming book, Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense, I end each chapter with a short story about a client who grew their…
November 1, 2017
Motivations for Owning a Business
Motivations for Owning a Business Guest column from Gregory Kovsky, IBA Business Brokers An introductory conversation between adults locally will often include an inquiry about…
October 30, 2017
Get Commitment or Lose Business
A few times a year I teach a class at the local SBA office (titled Dynamically Growing a Consulting Business). At the last class we…
October 27, 2017
Why Your Lease is Important
When in New York, my wife loves going to a clothing store called New York Look, where she’s befriended one of the employees who helps…
October 27, 2017
Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs
I’ve been working with a client company on the implementation of an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). In an ESOP, a qualified plan, the plan…
October 23, 2017
Strive More Simplicity
One of the things that’s always annoyed me is when I get a new dress shirt I have to find and remove about a dozen…
October 21, 2017
Social Acuity Matters
At the recent Society for the Advancement of Consulting conference we talked about (some) peoples’ lack of social acuity. There is no better place to…
