The NFL combine is going on in Indianapolis as I write this. It’s where the best college players gather with team representatives to show off…
JohnMApril 11, 2018
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I had my annual client breakfast in February. My guest speaker was Aaron Blank, owner of The Fearey Group, a Seattle PR firm (www.feareygroup.com). His…
JohnMMarch 28, 2018
As I write this I have just sent my CPA a note asking if they’re sending out a summary of the new tax law and…
JohnMMarch 22, 2018
On December 30, 2017 the Wall Street Journal featured a column by Daniel Pink, How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It’s All in…
JohnMMarch 22, 2018
I was reading an interview with a noted Seattle real estate developer and when asked about what he learned from his first mentor he stated…
JohnMMarch 22, 2018
We recently went out for dinner with some good friends and in our discussions the husband touched on how his customers tell him if he…
JohnMJanuary 31, 2018
On November 7, 2017 we* did our tenth annual Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference and had record attendance of about 180 people. Our guest…
JohnMJanuary 24, 2018
About five years ago I worked on a buy-sell deal, representing the buyer. Time goes by and I get a call from the seller, asking…
JohnMJanuary 22, 2018
While in New York City earlier this year we had dinner with one of our former exchange students. Alex recently moved to the New York…
JohnMJanuary 18, 2018
A friend told me how he visited Bozeman, MT and his brother-in-law complained about how (fast growing) Bozeman is becoming “too crowded.” One of my…
JohnMDecember 21, 2017
Regarding my upcoming book, Company Growth by Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense, a good friend asked me why I bothered having a print edition, implying most…
JohnMDecember 15, 2017
The big news in the NFL earlier this year was the best player in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers, was injured and will be out at…
JohnMDecember 12, 2017
Here’s a good way to lose customers. Change their agreement, which renews annually, without telling them and have the new agreement greatly reduce the customer’s…
JohnMDecember 5, 2017
My wife has been visiting our daughter in Baltimore a lot to help with a new baby, three trips in three months. She now has…
JohnMNovember 30, 2017
A few months ago I bought a new desktop computer (I still like the big screen with a second monitor so I can have four…
JohnMNovember 22, 2017
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to find examples of poor customer service. It’s all around us and one has to wonder why management…
JohnMNovember 21, 2017
A while back I read an article about how the staff at Tesla can’t keep up with all the visionary ideas Elon Musk and his…
JohnMNovember 17, 2017
It’s interesting, and a bit sad, to see town car drivers waiting and waiting and waiting outside of hotels as Uber and Lyft cars come…
JohnMNovember 15, 2017
For the last five years or so my CEO Leaders Group has met at Pearl restaurant in Bellevue or its (former) sister restaurant Koral. In…
JohnMNovember 14, 2017
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