In Monday’s newsletter, I published a story about how I landed every single one of my jobs. It was from my network of friends and colleagues if you haven’t yet read it. After reflecting on it a bit, I wanted to give an example of an unusual way I connected…

Remember that scene from Kramer v. Kramer where the husband is desperately looking for and had to get a job on Christmas Eve? You may have never seen that movie. It came out many moons ago, but everytime I think about someone looking for a job, I think about that…

Financing your business in the right way is probably the single most important thing to grow and in some cases, even survive. Many startups give away equity or ownership of their company to raise money from others, be they friends and family or angel or seed investors. You can also…

Best Use: Improving efficiency of processes If you are stumbling down a dark alley and see a guy about to kill another guy, and that perpetrator sees you observing him, do you think he will abort his planned murder and run away? Chances are he will. Or maybe he’ll murder two people instead of just one…

As the financial world holds its collective breath with the closure of Silicon Valley Bank, it brings to mind the Great Savings and Loan Debacle of the 1980s. During the years from1980 through 1988, 563 Savings and Loans (S&Ls) failed and were closed and that didn’t count all the forced…

He was running out of time. Our client’s warehouse was in a rustbelt town, he needed to sell it and no one was rushing to buy it. The weeds were growing through the cracks in the parking lot and he couldn’t cover the mortgage payment with his cash flow for…