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Your business and your eventual exit are not like a horse race, are they? The horse that wins by a nose wins five, ten or…
JohnMDecember 7, 2013
Your business and your eventual exit are not like a horse race, are they? The horse that wins by a nose wins five, ten or…
JohnMNovember 20, 2013
In football there’s a flexible pylon four inches square and 18 inches high on the end of each goal line, it’s in-bounds and where the…
JohnMNovember 14, 2013
I was recently at a high-end resort and wanted to use the gym. There were two gyms, one in the main building, a short walk…
JohnMOctober 7, 2013
I’ve been going through the wonderful experience of applying for a Rotary matching grant, for our Antigua project, in a new system. I’ve been our…
JohnMSeptember 25, 2013
To the surprise of nobody who drives, J.D. Power and Associates released a study stating that Prius drivers are the worst drivers on the road.…
JohnMSeptember 18, 2013
Over one month in the summer of 1940 the German military forced the French to surrender. Most people would assume that the German’s had a…
JohnMSeptember 4, 2013

While on vacation earlier this month, a good friend of ours got us field passes to watch the Green Bay Packers practice. It was a…
JohnMAugust 28, 2013
We were recently on the road, driving through North Dakota. It struck me that there were billboards, the type of which I’d never seen before.…
JohnMJuly 30, 2013
I received a call from a salesperson at a company from whom I had requested information. We went over a few things, she answered some…
JohnMJuly 24, 2013
We had a problem with a DVD that’s part of an exercise program we use. While the company replaced it, I decided we didn’t want…
JohnMJuly 10, 2013
On June 28, 2013 the Puget Sound Business Journal published my column titled, "To make a company valuable, you need to help it grow." “So…
JohnMJuly 9, 2013
A recent experience as a customer triggered my memory to last summer when my wife had a little biking accident and we ended up in…
JohnMJune 29, 2013
The June 19, 2013 Wall Street Journal titled, “Unpaid Internship? Some College Pick Up the Tab.” Here’s a quote from the article. “Colleges’ job-placement rates…
JohnMJune 27, 2013
One June 19, 2013 the Wall Street Journal had a short article about how FedEx is worried because customers are less inclined than ever to…
JohnMJune 24, 2013
Problem two: too many businesses get caught up in the day-to-day and never get around to formulating a strategy. Problem one (the big one): implementation…
JohnMJune 21, 2013
We did something last month that ended an era for my wife and me. For the first time in our lives we live in a…
JohnMJune 17, 2013
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