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Where do the really good people go to work?
Sometime in the early nineties, we decided that we were causing some of our own problems because we weren’t training our own salesmen. Business was good and growing, but we […]
Rough road for the children of Central America
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch clobbered Honduras. With more than 15 hours of winds in excess of 155 knots, Mitch ripped through the middle of the country, destroying almost 80 percent […]
The best advice I ever received came from a former boss
With college and a little bit of grad school behind me, I struck out in 1958 to “seek my fortune,” as they say. I had a degree in physics but […]
Dr. Oz and a happy company
My wife often watches Dr. Oz on the kitchen TV, so, like it or not, I end up listening to him, too. Even though I would probably deny being a […]
Can you get the best work out of the people you manage?
Whether they number in the thousands or just a handful, encouraging your team to produce at full throttle is tough to achieve because you have to enjoy the process along the way. When I start thinking about this problem, I recall the best boss I ever had. Why do I think that he was so great? His n...
From just over the hill: Today is always the beginning
One thing I can claim without challenge is that I have been around business for a long time. I had my first job in 1951 as a soda jerk in […]
Perspective: Like yesterday
From the beginning, we had tough people who loved the magazine, loved to report and loved to dig out the “story,” whether it was about Denver being the center of the penny stock business and how you could get upside-down quick when your stock went from 2 cents to 1 cent; or about the problems and...
On Management: A view of the U.S.
The airport in Madrid is a lot bigger than I expected and a lot older, too, providing miles of rough going for the wheels guiding your baggage along with stairways […]
On Management: How your team measures you
After 50 years of being managed and managing, this is what I learned you must do as a manager to earn loyalty and get a person’s best work: You mustρ Understand the […]
On management: The people part of business
When Wiesner Publishing was about one month old, we decided we needed to move from the house to an office, which we rented on the second floor of Littleton Electric. […]
On management: Where do you go after you blow through your startup money?
Out of work, a 45-year-old consultant (read: engineer without a job), in the beginning funnel of what would become a deep recession, with something like $3,000 in the bank, three kids […]
On management: Small-company financing
Sometime in the next few months I will retire fully and maybe take up writing in a different mode. I have to quit writing about business and sales and marketing […]
