June 7, 2017
Business Basics – From Day 1
A recent edition of my Marquette University alumni magazine had an article on a new mandatory Business School course, Business Day 1 (something I wish…
May 31, 2017
Science & Sales
Earth Day featured multiple marches across the country, protesting the anticipated cuts in federal dollars to science. An interview with one scientist hit the proverbial…
May 24, 2017
Leverage Our Instant Communication World
We live in the age of instant communication. We also live in the age of someone with a microphone just about everywhere. Mitt Romney found…
May 20, 2017
Let Your Employees Handle the Trophy
The front page of the Seattle Times sports section on March 20, 2017 had a picture of Seattle Sounders co-owner Drew Carey carrying the MLS…
May 15, 2017
Estimates and Misclassifying Will Hurt You
It’s March and that means college basketball tournaments aka, March Madness. It’s your typical tournament in that all the number one and two seeds won…
May 4, 2017
What If? A Most Important Question
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May 3, 2017
Dependencies Will Kill Your Valuation
As I write this, and as you read this, I’m in Antigua, West Indies on a Rotary service project, “Improving Education Through Technology.” This means…
April 28, 2017
Deal of All Kinds Get Disrupted
In the business news at the end of January were stories about how the Walgreens deal to buy Rite Aid had the price drop because…
April 24, 2017
Ethics and Good Business
A client called me last week to discuss the following and keep in mind my recent post about how some firms don’t pay enough (good) attention…
