September 16, 2025
The Failed Deal…
Nick Anderson, CEO of OneAccord provides a guest article for us every other month and we provide him an article the alternate months. We also…
September 10, 2025
Family Businesses
Jessica and I are members of Northwest Family Business Advisors, a group of people who do what the name implies, help family businesses and their…
September 10, 2025
Tight On The Target, Loose On The Controls
By Nokomis Advisory Services associate Ben Morley In history—whether military, political, or business—there are strategists and tacticians. The successful leaders have foundational understandings of the role…
July 16, 2025
Culture is a Moving Target
Business buyers want to know about a company’s culture and it’s not easy to figure out from the outside. And different companies have different culture…
July 9, 2025
Don’t Fall in Love
We had a short training session for the team. We covered dealing with clients, generating business, market conditions (the Business Journal recently had an article…
July 2, 2025
For-Profit and Not-For-Profit – A Common Problem
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity and pleasure to be on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. Some are charitable organizations as per IRS…
June 11, 2025
We All Have Hits and Misses
With Warren Buffett announcing his retirement as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway there have been numerous articles on his fantastic run of success. One that caught…
June 4, 2025
Above All – It’s the Fit
I’m a regular reader of the Wall Street Journal and one thing in common with WSJ articles and lower middle market buy-sell is the “fit.”…
May 28, 2025
Thoughts on Tariffs and Small Business
As I write this on April 21, the stock market indexes are all down about 3%. My skepticism wonders if the market being driven down…
May 14, 2025
Know Your Competitive Advantage
There was a WSJ headline recently about how P&G has surpassed Unilever, and it stated they did it by building on their strengths, i.e. their…
