On Halloween I asked: What’s scary to you? Only you can answer it but we’re not talking about eating too much candy tonight, ISIS, North…
JohnMDecember 19, 2017
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The big news in the NFL earlier this year was the best player in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers, was injured and will be out at…
JohnMDecember 12, 2017
Reading about the University of Washington’s big victory over rival Washington State I noticed the following from UW defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatowski, “When you beat…
JohnMDecember 8, 2017
Here’s a good way to lose customers. Change their agreement, which renews annually, without telling them and have the new agreement greatly reduce the customer’s…
JohnMDecember 5, 2017
The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article on how banks are reducing the number of branches. They explained how Bank of America, using…
JohnMDecember 5, 2017
My wife has been visiting our daughter in Baltimore a lot to help with a new baby, three trips in three months. She now has…
JohnMNovember 30, 2017
The other day I was on a conference call and heard a business seller give a very eloquent explanation of why he wants to sell…
JohnMNovember 28, 2017
A few months ago I bought a new desktop computer (I still like the big screen with a second monitor so I can have four…
JohnMNovember 22, 2017
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to find examples of poor customer service. It’s all around us and one has to wonder why management…
JohnMNovember 21, 2017
A while back I read an article about how the staff at Tesla can’t keep up with all the visionary ideas Elon Musk and his…
JohnMNovember 17, 2017
It’s interesting, and a bit sad, to see town car drivers waiting and waiting and waiting outside of hotels as Uber and Lyft cars come…
JohnMNovember 15, 2017
For the last five years or so my CEO Leaders Group has met at Pearl restaurant in Bellevue or its (former) sister restaurant Koral. In…
JohnMNovember 14, 2017
Recently I once again taught my very popular class, “Dynamically Growing a Consulting Business,” at the local SBA/SCORE office. Every class is different, which makes…
JohnMNovember 14, 2017
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…
JohnMNovember 9, 2017
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…
JohnMNovember 7, 2017
In my upcoming book, Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense, I end each chapter with a short story about a client who grew their…
JohnMNovember 2, 2017
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…
JohnMNovember 1, 2017
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…
JohnMOctober 30, 2017
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…
JohnMOctober 27, 2017
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