Business Owner’s Blog

I’m not advocating it - just asking you to think what the ramifications would be. Knowing how your absence would affect your company gives insight into what role you really play.
The extremes are:
Everything would go to hell in a hand basket. -OR- Not much would be noticeable at all.
If your absence would result in the […]

Solving problems is a typically American approach. We see the West to be conquered, the space race to be won, the journey as a destination, the problem to be solved. And to be sure, there are problems in your business. But just solving them is at best a short term fix and at worst a […]

What does a CEO do all day?
What do you do all day?
Is it good or bad if the answers are not the same?

Most business of our size get started because a person can make something or sell something. As the market responds, they need to build a company to meet the market demand. In the […]

I heard it again last night - on NPR of all places. They said that the Democrats will make raising the minimum wage one of their first priorities - in no small part because most of the electorate thinks it’s a good idea. (Now there’s a concept.) But then they added that someone - I […]

I’m usually a glass half empty guy for two reasons. I like my surprises to be pleasant, and I figure I’ll get in more trouble if I’m wrong by ignoring a problem than by down playing an opportunity. Kind of like Andy Grove’s book title “Only the Paranoid Survive”.
But this post is written by perhaps […]

Opps, I almost left for St. Louis without telling you. HBO is airing Hacking Democracy tomorrow night (Nov 2). I try not to be political unless it directly relates to business but if we can’t trust that our votes aren’t stolen then it seems pretty important.