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More Thoughts on the Importance of Planning
- I’ve become a huge fan of Carey Smith’s monthly column in Inc magazine. Within his November 2022 column (“If You Don’t Plan for the Long Term, Plan on Failure”) Mr. Smith covers several important aspects of the planning picture. The article sites a wide variety of reasons to support long term planning and warns of […] Read More
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Some Inspiring Quotes on Building a Team for Your Organization
- Recent reporting on the current state of employment, unemployment and job openings highlighted a challenge almost every executive and business owner I’ve spoken with is facing; how to build their teams when there is structural full employment in the economy? The number that got my attention is that there were 11.4 million job openings in […] Read More
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Highlights from My Vacation Reading
- Originally posted 10/3/2017. I took the first two weeks of August for a trip to Europe with my wife, Tammy. Tammy joined one of Berkshire Choral International’s groups which rehearsed and sang in Budapest, Hungary. While she was in rehearsals I toured Budapest and caught up on my reading, both business and pleasure. Following are […] Read More
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Some Thoughts About Direct to Consumer Startups
- Originally posted 7/10/2018. I just finished reading a very insightful article entitled The Race To Reinvent Everything by Tom Foster in the May 2018 edition of INC Magazine. The article is about direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups, companies that are emulating the Warby-Parker model for many other product categories. Products currently offered by more than 400 DTC […] Read More
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Why You Should Prepare Your Business To Be Sold (Even If You Don’t Plan To Sell It)
- Originally posted 10/23/2018 One fact I often site is that on average, 10,000 baby boomers in the USA turn 65 every day. This has been going on for the past seven years and will continue for another eleven years. This fact presents two major opportunities to the business world: What products or services does this […] Read More
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