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A lot of books on careers and entrepreneurship talk about having a passion for what you do. My advice is to not stress over it…

Saturday, January 7, 2012-I bring in the Seattle Times and The Wall Street Journal and see that both have headlines about the dropping unemployment rate. Seattle Times-"Job front improves,…

During December I started conducting a survey of business owners (if you're an owner, please take the survey by clicking the link below; it is…

In the March 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal Jason Gay wrote a very entertaining article titled, "The 23 Rules of March Madness." Not to be…

I get an email newsletter from the Green Bay Packers. It comes at least once a week and is supplemented by regular announcements from the…

Someone recently sent me Berkshire Hathaway’s (Warren Buffet’s company) acquisition criteria from their annual report. While buyers of small to mid-sized businesses don’t have the…

I recently returned from Antigua on our annual Rotary service project. While there we were incredibly busy on weekdays, almost as busy on weekends and…

I just returned from our annual Rotary service project in Antigua and Barbuda. It was our most ambitious, busiest and most successful project to date.…

Today the Seattle Times announced that Microsoft is revamping their marketing to better respond to rivals. Advertising and marketing have always moved faster than business…

In a response to my recent memo on acquisition lending, my friend Gregory Kovsky with IBA in Bellevue, WA, wrote me the following. ...the lending…