Business & Investment

On The Business Process

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The business process is really not all that complex. Brought down to its bare essentials it looks like this. A product or a service is going to be offered (whether manufactured or simply procured). You…

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I Love Passion

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Give me individuals and associates who are prepared to passionately argue for a particular position. I love the passion. I love the commitment. A Manager’s job is not necessarily to come up with the ideas….

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I Want to be Successful

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I want to be successful. But what I don’t want to do is sacrifice myself, my wife, or my family, for success. Can I have it all? In truth, when I used to think about…

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To Name it is to Own It

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Yahweh must have been a business man. If you remember way back when, the biblical story is that Yahweh refused to allow his name to be used. He ended up as “he who shall remain…

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The Shifting Roles of a CEO

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As the company continues to grow, I see my role continuing to shift. I thought it was shifting before, but it shifts even more now. What a CEO IS NOTA CEO is not the chief…

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It Never Pays to Be Reactive

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Weekends are all about barbecuing for us. From Friday at about 6 p.m. when I leave work all the way through Sunday evening’s dinner, weekends are all about barbeque. We’ve got this great summer kitchen…

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The “Secrets” of Being Successful

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I was having this conversation this past Friday night with some neighbors about what it takes to be successful in business. In the middle of the conversation, I was reminded of observing from time to…

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