August 28, 2013
Don’t Just Watch Football, Learn From It
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…
May 8, 2013
Communication Solves (Potential) Problems
On April 29 my Rotary Club (www.bbrc.net) held our annual fundraiser, the Bellevue 10K and 5K. When we picked up our family’s packets the day…
April 23, 2013
Learning From Catastrophe
There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the events in Boston last week. They include amazing, senseless and barbaric, and…
November 28, 2012
Is Your Business a Sandcastle?
Sandcastles are washed away by a big wave or even the rising tide. You want your business to be a solid structure like the brick…
November 26, 2012
Speed not Complication
Recently this memo described the complexity of a cranberry marsh and urged you to not make your business more complicated than it needs to be.…
November 24, 2012
Act as if you could Sell your Business Today; you Could meet your Best Buyer Tomorrow
90% of businesses are not ready to sell for maximum price (Wall Street Journal and other sources). Even if they are off by 100% that…
October 11, 2012
Contradictory Behavior Doesn’t Cut It
I was enjoying dinner with an old friend (Bob) and somehow we got on a topic of people with contradictory behaviors. It seems we both…