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Go Down with the Ship in Style
When the Titanic was finally finished being built, it was the largest passenger steamship of its time. It was a site to behold, having been designed to be both functional and beautiful. (The fourth smoke stack was merely an ornament to make the ship look more impressive.) Some of the wealthiest citizens of the early […]
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Last week, I started having problems with my WiFi router. It started blocking my client’s sites — and only his sites. It was selective filtering. Really weird. So I began investigating to try to figure out the problem. Spent hours testing my laptop and my wife’s laptop, plugging into the cable modem vs. using the […]
Continue readingQuantum Improvements
Today’s news reports that the Nintendo Wii outsold the Microsoft Xbox 360 by three to one in November 2008. That is a HUGE margin. Why do I bring this up? Because much of the time we focus on incremental improvements, what the Japanese call kaizen. The discipline of making incremental improvements is critical to business […]
Continue readingRipped Off… Again
Last night I received a piece of official looking mail. At first, I suspected it might be a solicitation disguised as government mail. Turns out I was wrong. It was a bankruptcy notice. After carefully scrutinizing three pages of paperwork, I finally located the name of the business in question: it is (was) one of […]
Continue readingWhy Recessions Are Good
Whenever there is a recession, it’s actually a good thing for many businesses. That’s because all the “wannabe” service providers go belly up, leaving more business for everybody else. The serious players usually see growth instead of contraction. That’s because: The real estate agent who sells four or five homes a year for friends and […]
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