There was a common theme amongst my friends this past holiday season: assessing their lives, work situations, relationships, etc.  It wasn’t just a new year it was a new decade! - and time for some big shifts.  A lot of them wanted to hear about new ventures I was working with in hopes of being [...]

At a recent management meeting, a client of mine (who I respect greatly) accurately challenged us to reflect on our year to date revenue achievement.  Things are not abysmal at this company (their revenues are flat, year to date, to their 2008 revenues) but they are not achieving any growth.  Of course, the immediate response [...]

Wonder what it is like to work at Google? Google Tech Talks is a series of presentations by high caliber people Google invites to speak to their employees to help them do their jobs better. They cover a wide variety of topics and most are available on YouTube. A particularly good [...]

It happens to every small company at least once (if not many times): you are low on cash and can’t pay your bills as they come in and the phone is ringing. Why can’t you pay? There are lots of reasons: waiting on receivables, pending financing is taking longer then expected, and of [...]