March 14 – Saturday evening was the Stephenson School Foundation Auction to raise money to fund teachers and programs that would otherwise be cut. It takes an incredible amount of work to put on, and is always professionally executed. But what stood out Saturday was the community coming together – even in our tough economy [...]
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March 12 – PGE CEO Peggy Fowler is retiring at 57 with a more than $4 million payout plus a pension of $790,000 per year. That’s for running a monopoly (i.e. captive customer base with no competition). She gets this lavish package for causing rates to go up 46.2 percent in 8 years.
Contrast this with [...]
March 11 – Are we just a shadow of our former selves? Where’s the gumption and moxie? I keep hearing from more and more people how America has lost it’s ambition and innovative drive to greed, complacency and laziness. And when you look at where we’ve gone this past decade, you start to believe it. [...]
March 9 – In the flat world business is hyper competitive. If you’re #1 or #2 you can’t rest on your laurels for long. There’s always someone gunning for you. So what’s the secret to staying on top? Here’s my recipe for total market domination:
Create stuff that your customers will love – not like. Love. [...]
February 27 – If you’re not innovating, you’re dying. Just look at the car companies. GM’s now saying they need to lower the average fuel economy targets to make it.
Horse hockey I say. That’s the same tired line they and the others have used for years. It’s ‘we can’t’ rather than ‘yes we can.’ [...]
February 1 – When employees defer to those in power – those with the title to make the big decisions – rarely do you get innovation. Rarely do the best ideas surface because it’s not a two-way conversation about ideas but more of a capitulation to those in charge.
While this might help to keep those [...]
