I love that saying on several levels.  Nothing frustrates me more as a manager than the employee who builds a wall of secrecy around his area of responsibility.  You know the type.  They build an ever increasing list of things that only they can do.  They guard the processes and procedures with their lives in [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the need to adapt or die.  Today I read an article that illustrates exactly why.  Kodak announced today that it will be discontinuing production of Kodachrome film effective this month.  The article talked about how sales had dropped to a point it no longer made sense to [...]

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I just returned from a week in New York City.   Paraphrasing what NFL quarterback Jim McMahon said on leaving BYU, “My favorite view of New York was the one in the rear view mirror on my way out.”  That’s not entirely true, or course, but there is certainly some truth there.
I had fun in [...]

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I spoke with the owner of a very successful business the other day.  They have a unique business model that has worked phenomenally well since they opened the business.  They have experienced double digit growth month by month from their inception — until the last few months.
Like many businesses in the USA (and the world) [...]

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In this time of economic trouble, many people are losing their jobs.  As they go out into a sometimes hostile marketplace looking for a new job, they find that there are few positions in their field.  The trap many of them fall into is saying, “I could do that.” Â
What that means is, “I don’t [...]

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