July 8, 2012
Social Media and its Varying Uses
The Facebook IPO has social media in the headlines. The big item to consider is: How does social media help our businesses and us? For…
July 4, 2012
Business and Giving Back
The weekend of April 21 we attended our Rotary district's annual conference. The keynote speaker was State Senator Rick Brinkley from Oklahoma. He was one…
June 30, 2012
Management Advice from Reality TV
The other night we were watching "Bar Rescue" starring Jon Taffer. Mr. Taffer was working with a bar/restaurant in Chicago that was struggling to catch…
June 24, 2012
What Would you do?
The news has been filled with interesting ethical issues. The Trayvon Martin case, Pink Slime and the New Orleans Saints bounty program all make for…
June 15, 2012
Managing the Fast Track
Recently The Wall Street Journal had an article on single people getting off the fast track. Their main example was a lawyer whom left a…
May 3, 2012
Are you Maximizing Your Value
I used the following visual a few times during talks last week and it went over well. My point is that business owners must know…
April 29, 2012
When Businesses Don’t Prosper
The New York Times small business blog on January 18, 2012 had a case study on franchises. A former International Franchise Association executive, now a franchise owner,…
April 27, 2012
Observations from Antigua
In wrote this while on the island of Antigua in the country of Antigua and Barbuda for our annual Rotary service project. We're working in…
April 26, 2012
Top Three Strategies for Business Growth
The "You're the Boss" blog in the January 18 New York Times featured "How to Diagnose What's Wrong With Your Business" by Jay Goltz. Mr. Goltz said to concentrate…