We live in the age of instant communication. We also live in the age of someone with a microphone just about everywhere. Mitt Romney found…
JohnMMay 24, 2017
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I guess it’s the era as it seems we’ve regressed to the days of misleading everything. Let’s ignore the political stuff even though it seems…
JohnMMay 11, 2017
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JohnMMay 4, 2017
As I write this, and as you read this, I’m in Antigua, West Indies on a Rotary service project, “Improving Education Through Technology.” This means…
JohnMMay 3, 2017
A client called me last week to discuss the following and keep in mind my recent post about how some firms don’t pay enough (good) attention…
JohnMApril 24, 2017
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JohnMApril 13, 2017
In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly." The gist of the article is companies…
JohnMApril 10, 2017
My four-year-old iMac was being very sluggish so I took it in to Apple’s Genius Bar (a great concept, bring in any Apple device and…
JohnMApril 6, 2017
In many industries, especially in the buy-sell world, the term “win-win deal’ is often thrown around. That said, most people want an, “I win more…
JohnMMarch 30, 2017
Tom Douglas is perhaps Seattle’s most famous chef/restaurateur with 900 employees and 19 establishments, all within a 10-block radius of his original restaurant, the Dahlia…
JohnMMarch 28, 2017
I heard an interesting tidbit on the radio recently. The story was how many shopping malls are banning teenagers who are at the mall without…
JohnMFebruary 27, 2017
I was looking through a folder of articles I’ve cut from papers and magazines (and printed from online sites) and noticed some on selling. Not…
JohnMFebruary 17, 2017
The compendium of technology. On one end one of the young tech writers for the Wall Street Journal always writes about how she wants an…
JohnMFebruary 8, 2017
“Restaurants Burned by Oversupply” is the Business section headline from the October 17, 2016 Wall Street Journal. The visual is a (Halloween themed) cemetery with…
JohnMJanuary 20, 2017
For years I’ve loved listening to Car Talk on NPR, even now when it’s in a “best of” mode given one of the brothers died.…
JohnMJanuary 11, 2017
I met with a group of clients in early November to “check-in’ as we head to the end of the year. The usual issues involve…
JohnMJanuary 8, 2017
On September 27, 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Doctors Give Pre-Surgery Orders to Get in Shape.” The first sentence is, “Are…
JohnMJanuary 6, 2017
Our son-in-law is a big city police officer (not Seattle) and recently was involved in a situation that will never make the news. He was…
JohnMNovember 16, 2016
In my last post I wrote about how teams are critical to success in sports, business, and actually other activities, and how individuals determine the success…
JohnMNovember 10, 2016
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