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November 11, 2011

Small Business can Learn from Big Business

The October 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section's headline was: "Apple's Game Plan: Avoiding Culture Shock" and dealt with Apple's decade-long succession plan for the late Steve Jobs.…

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November 7, 2011

Quantity or Quality?

October 18, 2011 At the end of September Allstate announced that they were changing their commission structure and thinning their ranks (Wall Street Journal, September…

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November 5, 2011

What you See his What you Get – The 2011-15 economy

October 11, 201 The cover story of the September 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal was titled, "Home Forecast Calls for Pain." The main point made in the…

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November 3, 2011

Are you Simply Shadow Dancing?

October 4, 2011 I didn't get it after watching the group Silhouettes perform on America's Got Talent (I was, however, the only one in my…

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November 2, 2011

Watch Your Debt

The Wall Street Journal recently had an article about how many midsize chain restaurants are struggling. The interesting commonality was that food costs were up…

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October 19, 2011

Watch Your Vendor Concentration

A former client took me to lunch recently and shared that his top manufacturer, accounting for 60% of his revenues, had dropped him as their…

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September 30, 2011

Banking Realities in 2011

Weekly Memo - September 6, 2011 On August 26, 2011 Mike Flynn, former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal and now active in the world of…

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September 17, 2011

Three Tips on Preparing for Sale

At my Rotary Club meeting recently Tim Gibbons, co-founder and president of PharmacyOneSource, spoke about the evolution of the company and its sale to a…

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September 3, 2011

Vacations-Who Needs Them?

It must be that time of year as on August 15, 2011 I was quoted in Portfolio.com in an article about taking vacations and on…

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August 22, 2011

Read my Interview in Portfolio.com

I was interviewed for an article in Portfolio.com (a bizjournals.com publication) on the taking or not taking of vacations. Read it here. Get Started With…

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Increasing Value

Small Business can Learn from Big Business

Quantity or Quality?

What you See his What you Get – The 2011-15 economy

Are you Simply Shadow Dancing?

Watch Your Debt

Watch Your Vendor Concentration

Banking Realities in 2011

Three Tips on Preparing for Sale

Vacations-Who Needs Them?

Read my Interview in Portfolio.com

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