Mad at Mgmt

How fitting that President Barack Obama and Apple CEO Steve Jobs both announced their new initiatives on the same day: January 27, 2010. Coincidentally, this was the day that I announced my new, big, bad application for the iPad. Full Story 

Years ago, the musician and comedian Victor Borge gave a monologue on inflation. He said, "Anything that has to do with money goes up ... except the language. See, we have hidden numbers in the words like 'wonderful,' 'before,' 'create,' 'tenderly.' All these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occasion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared. For example 'wonderful' would be 'two-derful.'"

In that vein ... Full Story 

My wife has a book on her office shelf called Sex and Power. Big disappointment. No sex in it.

On sales, I do have some hot advice — the best advice. And that is: Sell. Sell. Sell. Not your business; your product. I am always surprised at the number of very sophisticated executives who think that they are managing an enterprise without, in fact, leading its most important function. Full Story 

I was recently in a client's office, and remarked on the photo of his young family.

"My boy is three," the client remarked. "The dream is for him to take over this business."

This gave me pause. I work with a lot of family-run businesses, and have seen the best and the worst of succession issues. Full Story