Many years ago a client told a prospective client that I was expensive but worth it. He also stated to me and others that it…
JohnMAugust 25, 2014
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To non-baseball fans the game is slow and boring because something’s not happening “all the time.” To many baseball fans it’s the multi-levels of strategy.…
JohnMAugust 4, 2014
Consider the following: Amazon.com uses a temp agency to hire warehouse people and put them through a probationary period. My friend Gary with three-dozen employees…
JohnMAugust 1, 2014
As I mentioned last week, Lucas Mack with 4th Avenue Media presented to a group of my clients and me recently. The first thing I wrote down…
JohnMJuly 3, 2014
The best sportswriter in the country, in my humble opinion, is Jason Gay with The Wall Street Journal. He writes about all sports, has a…
JohnMJune 28, 2014
Lisa Forrest was right; you’re seeing this story. A couple weeks ago we were both at our mutual client’s business, Elmore Electric, now owned by…
JohnMMay 28, 2014
Three times a year we visit my mother-in-law and it always triggers one particular "reminder" in my head. You see, she grew up during the…
JohnMMay 5, 2014
Saturday night we were watching Restaurant Impossible as we ate dinner. Regular readers of my newsletters know that I write a lot about how business…
JohnMApril 30, 2014
On our return trip from our Rotary project in Antigua I was the first one to check in and did so via a kiosk. As…
JohnMMarch 19, 2014
Well, the Seahawks received their first Lombardi trophy after they crushed Denver and won the Super Bowl so it's time for another (last for this…
JohnMMarch 15, 2014
I'm in Antigua on our annual Rotary service project. Last week I was talking with my friend Jeff Mason at Newport High School - his…
JohnMMarch 12, 2014
Back in the 1990’s, in the days when you actually paid for long distance phone calls, I called my telephone company salesperson (when you also…
JohnMMarch 10, 2014
We recently had the “pleasure” of going mattress shopping. For the last few years we’ve said that when it became time to get a new…
JohnMFebruary 5, 2014
In January 2014 Delta Airlines announced a new membership policy for their Sky Clubs. In simple terms, they doubled the annual fee and got rid…
JohnMJanuary 29, 2014
On December 17, 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek published an article titled, “Proof That It Pays to Be America’s Most-Hated Companies.” The theme of the article is…
JohnMJanuary 23, 2014
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