From the Blog
  • Why Wait?

    posted January 14, 2013

    For the third time in the last three years, a client to whom I consulted a few years back e-mailed me this morning to tell me she had sold her business, for a price she had never dreamed possible.  All …

  • Don’t Let the Lawyers Run Your Company

    posted November 12, 2012

    I once knew a Fortune 500 CEO who completed hundred-million-dollar deals without signing a contract, because, he told me, “If trust breaks down to the point where we have to rely on the fine print to enforce the agreement, then …

  • Are You Serious About Growth?

    posted October 29, 2012

    I continue to be struck by the lack of resolve and urgency at so many companies to eliminate all wasteful activities and expenditures.  The world economy has been stalled for years, and there are few indications that it will become …

  • Lessons from the Teaching World

    posted October 16, 2012

    My mother and two of my children are teachers, and they are wary of the movement to assess teacher performance and to base pay and employment on the ratings that result.  Yet I work in the business world where such …