January 8, 2013
Entrepreneurship Comes in All Shapes and Sizes
We were spending New Year’s week in Scottsdale, Arizona and one day while walking around we stopped for lunch at a Blimpies. Two things became…
December 20, 2012
Watch Out for Concentrations
I recently attended a Puget Sound Business Journal breakfast where the speaker was the CEO of Virginia Mason (healthcare organization). He said something that I…
December 17, 2012
1984 in 2012 and Everybody Knows Everything About Everybody Else
We're all familiar with the premise of the book, "1984." Think not in terms of "big brother" but in terms of everybody knowing what we…
December 16, 2012
The Wrong Details Will Kill You
I recently gave a talk on, "Dramatically Increasing the Value of your Business." One of my topics is about how growth plans get sabotaged by…
December 12, 2012
Don’t Scramble Your Eggs
We've been planning our annual Rotary project trip to Antigua for which our matching grant was just approved and funded. After being there five times…
December 9, 2012
Business Lessons from Golf
Matt Thurmond, University of Washington golf coach, spoke to a group of my business owner clients on building the brand of UW golf. The UW…
December 7, 2012
It’s Never Easy
Okay sports fans, this is for you. From early December 2010 through 2011 the Green Bay Packers had a magical run. They won 21 of…
December 3, 2012
See Life in Slow Motion
It's football season and as part of that we're into replays, challenges and a lot of slow motion. I've always found it interesting that when…
December 2, 2012
Referrals Are Your Lifeblood
My business owner group met recently and one of the topics we discussed was referrals. I thought you'd be interested in the highlights of that…
