Welcome to our first Fiction Friday. I’m excited to start spilling my guts about the great reads in the mystery-suspense-thriller genre. I previewed this new series earlier this week, so I don’t need to repeat it … other than to...

Get ready for this Friday … because we’re going rogue! I intend to roust your senses, pillage your serenity and stimulate your discovery of the good, the bad and the only fiction genre where a ranch breakfast is a steel...

What are we going to be covering in this 3rd podcast in our Action Planning Course? A critical part of planning requires you to carefully examine all of the opportunities available to help you build your business ... and to...

What are we going to be covering in this 2nd podcast in our Action Planning Course?First, we're going to pull up to the dumpster to drop off the the excuses everyone uses for the lack of planning.We'll see why plans...

Do you think you could distill a lifetime of experiences into a handful of sentences ... so that when your grown children read them, they would hold them as dearly as they once held their teddy bears? I've recently published...

I'm starting to hate multitasking. I've known for some time that it's not healthy ... And not particularly productive. I caught myself in the spring with The Misleading Meandering of Multitasking. I ignored the Stanford researchers ... and I actually...

My friend and colleague, Steve Fredricks, President of Turrentine Brokerage, Trusted and Strategic Advisors to Growers, Wineries, and Financiers in the wine industry, did a terrific job at this year's Wine Industry Financial Symposium, Competing in a Rapidly Changing Global Wine Market.The Turrentine...

Doesn't a lot of this jawboning about job creation make your brain explode?I've never read articles by Rex Nutting before, who writes for MarketWatch on the WSJ Digital network ... but a banker friend of mine referred me to his...

Do you often wonder how this country gets along with the Pollyanna views inside the Beltway, mostly comprised of those who have never had to meet a payroll? The Senate passed the Small Business finance bill last week as a...

Double V - the deadly duo of Big Volatility and Little Visibility. A recent WSJ opinion piece nicely summarizes the quagmire of uncertainty that plagues American business. I'm pretty tired of all of the "credit-starved businesses" stories presented like medieval...

For at least 18 years, the Wine Industry Symposium Group, an organization of California wine industry professionals, has held the Wine Industry Financial Symposium to "develop a communications bridge to the financial community."This year, I will be conducting a 90 minute...

I've often used this line as a metaphor for the process of accountability and follow up that makes a real difference in executive performance.Just being there ... letting people know you really meant it when you asked for something to...

Urban Meyer is returning as the football coach at the University of Florida, much to the delight of Florida fans everywhere. He has a remarkable track record wherever he's been and with him, Florida won two national championships in 2006...

Benziger Winery has been named Business of the Year by the Sonoma Chamber of Commerce. They won the award for outstanding industry contributions and their commitment to the community, something that many of its fans ... like me ... know...

Wouldn't you know that after I'd just finished posting about the soldiers of the 7 Deadly Sins Army ... notably General Pride and his two prized henchmen, Major Envy and Major Jealousy, and their infection of the $10 trillion merger...