April 21, 2021
Don’t be Greedy – Be the Best
The New York Times reported on a “little-noticed court ruling in December (2020).” The ruling was against the former board members of the Jones Group,…
April 7, 2021
Questions and Confidentiality When Exiting
By Jessica Martinka There’s an old song that starts out, “Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.” What about, “Questions, questions, everywhere a question,” when it comes…
March 31, 2021
Business – It’s Not Rocket Science
I have never worked with a business buyer who didn’t want to grow (aka scale) the business they buy. I don’t know if I’ve ever…
March 27, 2021
Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments
The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. I read two long articles, one in the Seattle Times and the other…
March 24, 2021
A Job Disguised as a Business
We’re working on a client grow-by-acquisition project and have found the industry is not only very fragmented, with a lot of small companies, but too…
March 10, 2021
Tech and Our Lives
At the end of 2020 The Wall Street Journal had a feature article, co-authored by their four technology and related columnists, titled, “The Tech That…
March 3, 2021
It’s Bad, but Not All is Bad
Covid has been wicked to a lot of people. It’s been a business boom for some. It’s changed everybody’s life in some way. And we’ve…
March 3, 2021
An NFL PR Machine
Don’t you wish you could have a PR machine like Russell Wilson? For the last couple of weeks he’s been a regular story in the…
February 24, 2021
When Football, Covid, Protocols, and Systems Collide
The NFL is down to the final four teams. On at least one of the games this past weekend the announcers talked about how successful…
February 10, 2021
Happiness, Dogs, and Culture
Let’s start 2021 on a happy note. On January 2 in the Wall Street Journal there was a column by Susan Pinker titled, “Dogs Really Do Make…
