November 28, 2012
Is Your Business a Sandcastle?
Sandcastles are washed away by a big wave or even the rising tide. You want your business to be a solid structure like the brick…
November 26, 2012
Speed not Complication
Recently this memo described the complexity of a cranberry marsh and urged you to not make your business more complicated than it needs to be.…
November 24, 2012
Act as if you could Sell your Business Today; you Could meet your Best Buyer Tomorrow
90% of businesses are not ready to sell for maximum price (Wall Street Journal and other sources). Even if they are off by 100% that…
November 22, 2012
Don’t Overcomplicate Things
I recently took a tour of the Lake Nokomis Cranberry Marsh (it's on the same lake as our family cabin). The operations manager told me…
November 19, 2012
Run Like a Jamaica
The 2012 London Olympics saw the tiny country of Jamaica (population of 2.7 million) dominate the sprint events. They took 10 of 14 possible medals,…
November 2, 2012
Bad Customer Service
My kids gave me an atomic clock from LaCrosse Technologies for my birthday last year. It started “eating” batteries, going through a battery every two…
October 31, 2012
There’s Never a Shortage of Ideas, Even Bad Ones
I opened an official looking letter the other day from “Corporate Records Service” that referenced my corporation’s annual minutes on the envelope. I was immediately…
October 30, 2012
The Waiting Game: Business, the Election and the Economy
I finally got around to reading a Puget Sound Business Journal column from a couple weeks ago that was titled: Small business in ‘maintenance mode’…
October 25, 2012
The Election and Small Business
The October 25, 2012 Wall Street Journal’s Small Business column was on how the presidential candidates are not addressing the issues that most concern business…