July 10, 2013
Do You Really Want My Business?
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…
July 9, 2013
Grow Your Business – Increase Its Value
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…
June 29, 2013
Let’s Not Worry About Your Customers’ Experience
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…
June 27, 2013
Universities (Forced to) Join the Real World
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…
June 24, 2013
When To Absolutely, Positively Move With Speed
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…
June 20, 2013
Perform Due Diligence Before Your Acquisition
I hope this was simply a bad reporter not a bad business buyer. The Business Journal recently published a supplement titled, "From Beginners to Bigshots."…
June 20, 2013
Raising the Bar; Not Lowering It
The Seattle Times has been publishing interviews with all the mayoral candidates, and there are a lot of them heading into the primary. Even though…
June 17, 2013
Shedding the Unnecessary
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…
June 5, 2013
Try, Try and Try Again
The other day as we were just waking up we hear this “rat-a-tat-tat; rat-a-tat-tat” that was a woodpecker trying to peck into our composite basketball…