“Partnering with Amazon” is the politically correct title choice for this blog. My alternative, “Sleeping with the Enemy,” though a more accurate description of the reality facing many Amazon sellers, was rejected. Why? Call it self-preservation. One must be...
“People are our most important asset.” It is the rare corporate employee who hasn’t encountered this hackneyed statement in an employee manual, executive speech, or HR PowerPoint presentation. While it rings somewhat hollow in this age of ever-increasing...
I am often asked to share my startup stories. I’m happy to do so . . . up to a point. I reserve the more unique, even bizarre, stories for future publication. Someday, I hope these vignettes will appear in a compilation of tales from the entrepreneurial...
¡Atopa a meu iphone! Find my iPhone . . . in Galician. Yes, I recently spent a very enjoyable ten days in Galicia, visiting Santiago de Compostela, Cambados, O Grove, Pontevedra and other memorable locations. My iPhone and Kindle liked it so much they decided to go...
Corporations are people, too. Not in the sense that the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, when it allowed corporations the free speech rights accorded to citizens. No, I am referring to business obituaries. Dead companies, like dead people, enjoy the same...
Do business ethics still matter? I never thought I would be asking such a, seemingly heretical, question. The thought of businesses operating without a system of moral and ethical beliefs to guide them is, well, it’s frightening. Chaos would seem to be the logical...
