Archive for January, 2009
It seems that we have all become more cynical. It’s hard to know who to trust. Companies we grew up with and expected to always be there have been bought by other companies or have gone bankrupt… Values that we believed in are being questioned every single day… We read in the paper about the [...]
You may have heard the story from the old time business people about how when a person gave his word you could count on it. It was a matter of trust. I remember a story that is absolutely true about the famous golfer Arnold Palmer. Arnold was with the same management company for decades. He [...]
If we study history we can save ourselves a lot of pain in our businesses. History does repeat itself. That’s a fact. One of history’s business lessons is: Bigger isn’t always better. A good example was featured in a headline story in the Wall Street Journal recently that read: Citigroup Takes First Step Toward Breakup. [...]
