I spent a lot of my weekend doing just what I really wanted to do. Watching BASKETBALL. I watched the…
Year: 2014
I’m still a relatively inexperienced salesman, as I’ve been selling machine tools for only two years. But I do believe…
In our machine tool business we routinely order a standard part that comes in many sizes. The company we buy from,…
The path toward U.S. energy independence, made possible by aboom in shale oil, will be much harder than it seems. Just…
Connecting the dots … Jan Koum, an immigrant from Kiev, Ukraine, sells his five-year-old company, WhatsApp, for $19 billion to…
Entrepreneurs are everybody’s favourite heroes. Politicians want to clone them. Popular television programmes such as “The Apprentice” and “Dragons’ Den”…
In January, I vacationed in a Latin American country. I won’t name the country out of respect for a few…
Reverberations continue from the United Auto Workers’ unexpected defeat Friday night in its campaign to organize workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga,…
I am a global warming (GW) cynic—not a total skeptic, nor a true believer. I am cynical because I know…
The do-it-yourself wedding photography approach asks wedding guests to take pictures with their phone cameras or digital cameras, email them…