Considering the current state of our economy and all the negativity in the press, it’s no wonder we are starting to feel the doom and gloom around us. But in fact, as we go into this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I think we have to seperate ourselves from everything that is going on around us today [...]
I was in a store yesterday and overheard a conversation between two employees. It seems there was a sales contest going on. One employee clearly wanted to win. The other, while he wasn’t sure he could actually win, made the following comment: “I don’t really feel the need to win, but I’m certainly not going [...]
This is an interesting time to be alive. You see who the savvy financial people are in a time of crisis. Another thing I love is watching middle managers and supervisors in a time of crisis in a business. You learn more about them at that time than you could in any other way or [...]
I got into a discussion of business ethics the other night with a man I know well. This man is considered by pretty much everyone who knows him to be an honorable man. He is fair and honest in his business dealings. He is helpful to those who are less fortunate and is viewed by [...]
Much of what we do as business owners and operators is evaluative in nature. We evaluate the numbers to see where we could improve. We evaluate proposed changes or additions to our current way of doing business with an eye toward making the business better. We evaluate employees and managers to see who really makes [...]
I got an interesting call today from an old friend. After the usual pleasantries, he said, “I need a name.” He explained that he was getting ready to do some business in Mexico, and he wanted to see if I remembered the name of a man we did business with there in the early ’90’s. [...]
One of my favorite shows on TV is The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Milan. He takes dogs that are out of control and makes them into model citizens. What a concept. Take something that has no value (or in most cases less than no value — a liability) and make it into something useful and [...]
I was reading Mark Cuban over at Blog Maverick a few days ago and he was talking about how-Obama’s first big mistake was that he formed his economic advisory council and didn’t include any entrepreneurs. His point was that America is great because of entrepreneurs, and leaving them off the council (whether accidentally or by design,) [...]
If you want to see how not to kick off your new business, you need to look at Innodyn aircraft engines. I first became acquainted with Innodyn in 2004 when they offered a turbo shaft airplane engine for the cost of a piston engine. For those of you who aren’t pilots, that means the engine [...]
As part of my bid to become more self-sufficient, I ordered everything I needed to begin making my own cheese. I read several articles on how easy it was to make your own cheese, so I bought Riki Carrol’s book on the subject (the de-facto bible on cheese-making) and had a go. Unfortunately, like so [...]
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