Increasing Value

The May 23, 2012 Wall Street Journal had a feature article titled, "You Call That Innovation?" The article discussed the overuse of the word innovation and noted…

I get updates for industry groups of which I'm a member on LinkedIn. After an exchange with a friend about one of these I wrote…

Since college days I've been a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. I've read all the stories at least twice, watched the old PBS episodes and…

On June 30 my term as president of the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club ended. I learned a lot in my presidential year and in the…

The Facebook IPO has social media in the headlines. The big item to consider is: How does social media help our businesses and us? For…

The weekend of April 21 we attended our Rotary district's annual conference. The keynote speaker was State Senator Rick Brinkley from Oklahoma. He was one…

The other night we were watching "Bar Rescue" starring Jon Taffer. Mr. Taffer was working with a bar/restaurant in Chicago that was struggling to catch…

Recently The Wall Street Journal had an article on single people getting off the fast track. Their main example was a lawyer whom left a…

The New York Times small business blog on January 18, 2012 had a case study on franchises. A former International Franchise Association executive, now a franchise owner,…