The Cement Floor Doesn’t Lie
You’ve been slogging along for 40 years and the cement floor bites harder every day. You are wondering if it is time to sell the company, but you have no idea what it is worth or if anybody would want it. I’ve been helping folks buy and sell machining businesses
Energy Trumped Statistics
I have been a baseball and political junkie for the last six months, reading all the statistics and scuttlebutt I could digest. I found a
Congratulations to Me!
I received calls and emails all day congratulating me on the Cubs fantastic victory Wednesday in the World Series. Thanks, I did get the winning

Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
I am still woozy from the awesome Cubs victory in game five of the World Series. I watched the game on TV at home, but

Every Breath I Take
My daughter Sarah’s goal for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, was to make her congregants think about how they want to live their
Sweet 16
Today I am celebrating the 16th anniversary of Today’s Machining World. I have learned a lot about the writing business and myself by doing this
Wear Your Seatbelt
A few months ago I was at the Bucktown Art Fair in Chicago where I met an artist/entrepreneur from Tennessee named Clay Bush. Bush uses

