Everyone asks if we’re ready for Christmas. Few ask if we’re ready for the New Year. New Year’s Eve is quite pedestrian; we will amble through it and enter 2014... read more →
Most businesses choose some form of incorporation whether it’s a LLC or a C-corporation. Each has individual advantages from legal and tax perspectives. What you may not know about is... read more →
Leadership Last week I stumbled through another liminal dimension in my current work with the 3to5 Club of business owners who are clarifying the key strategies for their businesses. At... read more →
Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at the five components needed to build a healthy framework for negotiating agreements: Trust Resiliency Communication Team Orientation Focus For illustration, I’ve applied... read more →
This blog is dedicated to the millennial stakeholders of our businesses. Today they comprise 34% of our employees; by 2020 that percentage will rise to 46% (1). Our firms will... read more →
Last week, I talked about how a couple of merchants in a little medieval town created an unanticipated social capital footprint. Their decisions to uphold and propagate standards of honest... read more →
“I look forward again to coaching to try to win rather than trying to avoid being defeated.”—John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach, after his fifth (of ten) national titles. For our... read more →
“Mamihlapinatapai” is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego [and is] listed in [the] Guinness Book of Records...as the “most succinct word."1 (Pronounced ma-mE-la-pin-ya-ta-pI). Being a linguistical hobbyist,... read more →
Over the last two weeks, we’ve looked at real consequences of the government’s fiscal rigor mortis. We’ve also explored Modern Monetary Theory’s argument that the result of deficit spending is... read more →
Business owners so often believe this myth about their lives and their businesses: work comes before play and selling their business for top dollar is their highway to freedom. Have... read more →