September 4, 2013
Don’t Bumble Like the French
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…
August 28, 2013
Don’t Just Watch Football, Learn From It
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…
August 21, 2013
Adapt Like a Fox
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…
July 17, 2013
When the Internet is Full of Junk
The two most recent newsletters from Business Brokerage Press featured a list of the current “hot” businesses for sale based on a monthly ranking of…
May 22, 2013
Silly Rules and Policies
Paul McCartney and Wings had a song titled, "Silly Love Songs" and it starts with the line, "You'd think that people would have had enough…
May 8, 2013
Communication Solves (Potential) Problems
On April 29 my Rotary Club (www.bbrc.net) held our annual fundraiser, the Bellevue 10K and 5K. When we picked up our family’s packets the day…
April 30, 2013
Love What You Do
I came back from the gym the other night and my wife had the MLB network on and was watching the Dodgers-Brewers game. The Dodgers…
April 23, 2013
Learning From Catastrophe
There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the events in Boston last week. They include amazing, senseless and barbaric, and…
March 7, 2013
The State of the Buy-Sell Market in Early 2013
On January 28, 2013 BusinessWeek published an article Karen Klein titled, “What’s Driving the Spike in Small Business Acquisitions.” Let’s review her top three points…
