June 30, 2011
Weekly Memo June 21, 2011
Succession Plans Take Time The June 6, 2011 Wall Street Journal had an article on the five-year process to find a successor for the CEO…
June 27, 2011
Weekly Memo June 7, 2011
(Avoid) Stupid Business Practices Last summer I had a skin infection, a nurse friend talked me into going to the emergency room on a Sunday…
June 23, 2011
Weekly Memo May 31, 2011
Take Care of Your People On May 9 my alma mater, Marquette, along with Seattle U held a networking event in Seattle. There was a…
June 21, 2011
Weekly Memo May 23, 2011
Work Together for Success The May 12, 2011 Wall Street Journal had an article on the congressional hearings regarding the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. The article stated,…
June 18, 2011
Know What to Say and Not Say
Boeing executives should have, "Kept their mouths shut. I'm sure their labor lawyers were banging their heads." Charles Craver, labor law expert at George Washington…
June 7, 2011
You Don’t Need to Know Everything
You don’t need to know everything; you need to know everything important. There’s a big difference between the two preceding phrases and it’s where business…
May 31, 2011
Get the Facts before Making Decisions
I’m in an elevator in a W Hotel coming down from the 20th floor with a lot of stops (busy time of day I guess).…
May 20, 2011
Events
I met with a client the other day and we discussed all that's happened since the last time we met in person. Floods, tornados, tsunamis,…
May 17, 2011
Weekly Memo – May 16, 2011
Competitive Advantage is Everything I recently attended my Rotary District’s annual conference. Like most conferences, everybody gets a name badge and with Rotary you also…
