February 18, 2013
Don’t Make Value Judgments
Let me share that I get therapeutic massages for very tight muscles on my IT bands (outside hamstrings). As prep for nine hours of flights,…
February 13, 2013
Forget the Input; It’s the Output That Matters
I went to Marquette University and while recently watching one of their basketball games I heard a quote from their coach, Buzz Williams. He said,…
February 6, 2013
Change With the Times or Suffer
Read the sports page this time of year and, besides the Super Bowl, you'll regularly see articles on college football recruiting because early February is…
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…
February 2, 2013
Sales Training Needed?
The February 2, 2013 New York Times Small Business section had an article titled, "How Much Training Do Sales Representatives Need?" The author gave some…
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…
December 12, 2012
Don’t Scramble Your Eggs
We've been planning our annual Rotary project trip to Antigua for which our matching grant was just approved and funded. After being there five times…
December 9, 2012
Business Lessons from Golf
Matt Thurmond, University of Washington golf coach, spoke to a group of my business owner clients on building the brand of UW golf. The UW…
