January 20, 2017
Oversupply and Demand (Not Good)
“Restaurants Burned by Oversupply” is the Business section headline from the October 17, 2016 Wall Street Journal. The visual is a (Halloween themed) cemetery with…
January 11, 2017
Limited Information Solutions
For years I’ve loved listening to Car Talk on NPR, even now when it’s in a “best of” mode given one of the brothers died.…
January 8, 2017
Where do You Want to be in One Year?
I met with a group of clients in early November to “check-in’ as we head to the end of the year. The usual issues involve…
January 6, 2017
Are You Ready For “Surgery”
On September 27, 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Doctors Give Pre-Surgery Orders to Get in Shape.” The first sentence is, “Are…
November 16, 2016
What’s behind your curtain?
Our son-in-law is a big city police officer (not Seattle) and recently was involved in a situation that will never make the news. He was…
November 10, 2016
Individuals or Teams? It’s Both (Part two)
In my last post I wrote about how teams are critical to success in sports, business, and actually other activities, and how individuals determine the success…
November 3, 2016
Individuals or Teams? It’s Both (Part one)
The NFL season started last Thursday and a quick review of multiple games synopsis along with seeing some highlights showed 11 of the 14 games…
October 15, 2016
Streamline or Clog the Growth Path
The European Union has a myriad of rules and regulations. One of the most “interesting” (substitute your term for interesting after reading the rule) is…
October 11, 2016
Tear Down or Build Up
Almost daily we take our dogs for a walk. Meandering through the woods and a mixture of neighborhoods, depending on the route we take, we…
October 10, 2016
Who’s Your Judge and Jury?
In his book, “Originals,” (Penguin Random House, 2016) Adam Grant’s Chapter Two, Blind Inventors and One-Eyed Investors, discusses how misguided certain opinions can be. Two…
