Increasing Value

We were recently on the road, driving through North Dakota. It struck me that there were billboards, the type of which I’d never seen before.…

I received a call from a salesperson at a company from whom I had requested information. We went over a few things, she answered some…

We had a problem with a DVD that’s part of an exercise program we use. While the company replaced it, I decided we didn’t want…

On June 28, 2013 the Puget Sound Business Journal published my column titled, "To make a company valuable, you need to help it grow." “So…

A recent experience as a customer triggered my memory to last summer when my wife had a little biking accident and we ended up in…

The June 19, 2013 Wall Street Journal titled, “Unpaid Internship? Some College Pick Up the Tab.” Here’s a quote from the article. “Colleges’ job-placement rates…

One June 19, 2013 the Wall Street Journal had a short article about how FedEx is worried because customers are less inclined than ever to…

Problem two: too many businesses get caught up in the day-to-day and never get around to formulating a strategy. Problem one (the big one): implementation…

We did something last month that ended an era for my wife and me. For the first time in our lives we live in a…

The other day as we were just waking up we hear this “rat-a-tat-tat; rat-a-tat-tat” that was a woodpecker trying to peck into our composite basketball…