April 14, 2017
Jobs, Skills, and Worker Shortages
As I looked through my folder of articles I’ve saved as topics for my newsletters and posts the number one topic, by a landslide, was…
April 13, 2017
Top Tips for Business Sellers
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April 10, 2017
Slow, Fast, or Manageable Growth?
In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly." The gist of the article is companies…
April 6, 2017
Technology and Its Limits
My four-year-old iMac was being very sluggish so I took it in to Apple’s Genius Bar (a great concept, bring in any Apple device and…
April 1, 2017
Huge Risks? What’s Your Comfort Zone
Last year in Inc. Magazine entrepreneur and columnist Norm Brodsky wrote a column on risk versus reward. As he put it (for one of his…
March 30, 2017
Win-Win Deals: What it Really Means
In many industries, especially in the buy-sell world, the term “win-win deal’ is often thrown around. That said, most people want an, “I win more…
March 28, 2017
Regulations and Micromanagement
Tom Douglas is perhaps Seattle’s most famous chef/restaurateur with 900 employees and 19 establishments, all within a 10-block radius of his original restaurant, the Dahlia…
March 23, 2017
Ignore the Balance Sheet at Your Own Risk
A number of years ago I worked with an investment group. The president was a very experienced and very good operator but somewhat new to…
February 27, 2017
Why Malls Ban Teenagers and Your Business
I heard an interesting tidbit on the radio recently. The story was how many shopping malls are banning teenagers who are at the mall without…
