Conditions

This is the environment in which you operate - the things you can't change but which you must exploit to succeed.

Community, Conditions, Personal

We Survived Hurricane Irene – and why that matters to Your Business

August 29, 2011
Living in Connecticut with some big trees in the yard, we stocked up on water, food we could eat without cooking, propane and then slept in the finished basement. We spent the entire time with running water (hot AND cold).…
Community

Is business Bad for Politics or the Otherway Round?

May 23, 2011
I posted four years ago that typical pro-business political positions are often actually bad for business because they are short sighted. In my experience working with business owners, lack of strategic planning is something they are almost always "too busy"…
Community, Personal

In the 1800’s America Became an Economic Force

October 13, 2010
Bill Bryson says it was done in large part by utilizing innovations and technologies that were invented in Europe. These were then scaled and perfected in America and the products sold back to the Europeans. Does that remind anyone else…
Conditions

Why Business News is Irrelevant

April 17, 2006
What's considered "newsworthy" by the business press is either about trends that have a very broad appeal, or what Hugh McLeod calls business porn. The reason any kind of porn has any appeal at all is that it's a fantasy.…