Reflecting on the Ironman World Championships, I’m struck by how erratically many of the competitors rode the 112-mile bike leg of the race. Let’s put…
JohnMDecember 9, 2013
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It seemed like within one week we walked into three places where there was a popcorn machine. The third time is when my wife made…
JohnMDecember 4, 2013
Your business and your eventual exit are not like a horse race, are they? The horse that wins by a nose wins five, ten or…
JohnMNovember 20, 2013
In football there’s a flexible pylon four inches square and 18 inches high on the end of each goal line, it’s in-bounds and where the…
JohnMNovember 14, 2013
I was reviewing some notes for a talk and the last comment I had written was, "Use common sense." This applies to more than just…
JohnMOctober 24, 2013
Every so often I hear the statement, “the business is so well run you can hire a manager for $50-60,000 a year to keep it…
JohnMOctober 22, 2013
If the only way a buy-sell deal can be made to work is because of AAA, it's probably not worth doing. AAA stands for: Adjustments…
JohnMOctober 18, 2013
I was at a professional group meeting recently, we broke into small groups to discuss an issue and the first thing one person blurted out…
JohnMOctober 16, 2013
I was recently at a high-end resort and wanted to use the gym. There were two gyms, one in the main building, a short walk…
JohnMOctober 7, 2013
It's been a long time since I've experienced rain as we did at the University of Washington football game last Saturday. We were soaked under…
JohnMOctober 5, 2013
Pre-Great Recession - banks competed for business acquisition loans and I remember one client's summary that had eight banks, eight approvals, seven banks using the SBA…
JohnMOctober 3, 2013
I’ve been going through the wonderful experience of applying for a Rotary matching grant, for our Antigua project, in a new system. I’ve been our…
JohnMSeptember 25, 2013
To the surprise of nobody who drives, J.D. Power and Associates released a study stating that Prius drivers are the worst drivers on the road.…
JohnMSeptember 18, 2013
September 10, 2013 The August 26, 2013 Wall Street Journal had a page 3 article titled, "Seattle a Leader in Job Growth" and it discussed why…
JohnMSeptember 11, 2013
Over one month in the summer of 1940 the German military forced the French to surrender. Most people would assume that the German’s had a…
JohnMSeptember 4, 2013
While on vacation earlier this month, a good friend of ours got us field passes to watch the Green Bay Packers practice. It was a…
JohnMAugust 28, 2013
We were visiting my mother-in-law in Milwaukee a week or so ago, on Sunday morning we got some coffee and walked to the lakefront where…
JohnMAugust 21, 2013
We were recently on the road, driving through North Dakota. It struck me that there were billboards, the type of which I’d never seen before.…
JohnMJuly 30, 2013
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