July 17, 2013
When the Internet is Full of Junk
The two most recent newsletters from Business Brokerage Press featured a list of the current “hot” businesses for sale based on a monthly ranking of…
May 22, 2013
Silly Rules and Policies
Paul McCartney and Wings had a song titled, "Silly Love Songs" and it starts with the line, "You'd think that people would have had enough…
May 8, 2013
Communication Solves (Potential) Problems
On April 29 my Rotary Club (www.bbrc.net) held our annual fundraiser, the Bellevue 10K and 5K. When we picked up our family’s packets the day…
April 30, 2013
Love What You Do
I came back from the gym the other night and my wife had the MLB network on and was watching the Dodgers-Brewers game. The Dodgers…
April 23, 2013
Learning From Catastrophe
There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the events in Boston last week. They include amazing, senseless and barbaric, and…
March 7, 2013
The State of the Buy-Sell Market in Early 2013
On January 28, 2013 BusinessWeek published an article Karen Klein titled, “What’s Driving the Spike in Small Business Acquisitions.” Let’s review her top three points…
February 5, 2013
Finish What You Start
This morning I listened to an interview with an experienced hostage negotiator. He was being interviewed about the Jimmy Lee Dykes case in Alabama. Talk…
December 20, 2012
Watch Out for Concentrations
I recently attended a Puget Sound Business Journal breakfast where the speaker was the CEO of Virginia Mason (healthcare organization). He said something that I…
December 16, 2012
The Wrong Details Will Kill You
I recently gave a talk on, "Dramatically Increasing the Value of your Business." One of my topics is about how growth plans get sabotaged by…
