My wife and I were having dinner last week on the new deck at the Wallingford Tutta Bella along with Joe Fugere, the owner (not…
JohnMSeptember 2, 2020
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The July 11-12, 2020 Wall Street Journal had a fascinating article on the dysfunctional British Barclays family. It’s a good example of why it’s great…
JohnMAugust 21, 2020
s you may know from my email signature, website, the bottom of this newsletter, and elsewhere I have trademarked the term, “The Escape Artist®” for…
JohnMAugust 12, 2020
I was on an online discussion event recently when a lady said (and I summarize), “Nobody will want a car anymore because we’ve shown we…
JohnMJuly 1, 2020
Over the last couple months I’ve been on a lot of webinars, Zoom meetings, and other online events, as I’m sure many of you have.…
JohnMJune 24, 2020
One could write a long essay on businesses lessons from the virus crisis, there are so many, both good and bad. One of the top…
JohnMJune 5, 2020
The May 5, 2020 of the Wall Street Journal was, not unexpectedly, filled with articles on the virus. The ones standing out were the headlines…
JohnMJune 3, 2020
In college basketball there are players known as being, “one-and-done,” as in playing one year for the college team and then going off to the…
JohnMApril 29, 2020
I wrote this in Antigua, West Indies on another Rotary service project installing computers and Wi-Fi networks in schools, training teachers how to teach more…
JohnMApril 22, 2020
We’re in Antigua, West Indies, on our Rotary project, working in the schools. Over the course of the trip I’ve had 12 meetings (in seven…
JohnMApril 15, 2020
At a recent meeting of the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club, I barely paid attention to 90% of the program. Why? Because in the first few…
JohnMApril 10, 2020
A company Jessica and I have been helping has a dependency problem, which is not uncommon in small businesses. Unlike most, it’s not the owner…
JohnMApril 8, 2020
For most business owners I’m guessing your strategy is off track and any exit planning is on the back burner given our minds are on…
JohnMApril 3, 2020
Just some thoughts given our current situation. Disclaimer: You will probably find something to like and dislike based on your political preferences. Mother Nature, the…
JohnMApril 1, 2020
I won’t be disingenuous by marketing services when most of us are in survival mode so I will make all readers of this newsletter an…
JohnMMarch 30, 2020
Once again, the phrase, “We live in interesting times” is being used. There’s nothing but news about the coronavirus and at the same time marketing creativity…
JohnMMarch 19, 2020
It’s 2020. Another year, another decade. Doesn’t seem that long-ago people were worried about the world collapsing on 1-1-2000 because of computer clocks, does it?…
JohnMFebruary 20, 2020
We recently spent a long weekend cleaning out our family cabin, which recently sold. As we thought about all we did over the years, we…
JohnMFebruary 13, 2020
This was written for and originally published by https://soundmarkwealth.com/, a Kirkland, WA wealth management firm. Somewhere over the rainbow… is the successful sale and exit…
JohnMFebruary 11, 2020
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