I’m a creature of habit. There is both some good and bad to that fact. Habits can be easy to fall into and difficult to break. And since companies are made up of people, companies can end up having both …
Companies use multiple pieces of software, some simple and some quite complex. And for every one of them, especially those that are complex, there needs to be a power user in the company who knows the software like the back …
After a long and somewhat frustrating work week, last Saturday I decided it was time to tear out two overgrown bushes in the front yard. My wife had commented that we have the worst landscaping in the neighborhood. I’m not …
This message is so basic that it doesn’t deserve the title Finance 101. My hope is that none of my regular readers find anything useful in here but that they pass it along to someone else as a public service …
When I published Your Cash Is Flowing: Why every entrepreneur needs to think like a CFO, I headed a chapter with A Broken Cog Slows All Wheels. I never did a blog post with that title, however, until today. The …
To those of you who read the title and assumed that I was going to go political, I’m not. Although that would be easy to do these days no matter the side of the aisle on which you reside. Instead, …
I’ve worked on a number of transactions during my career. The first one was the $5 billion merger between Burroughs and Sperry. The rest have been far smaller. The lessons I’ve learned in the first and across many of the …
We’re a month into the new year and by now, you should have your 2023 budget firmly established. But for the few of you out there who don’t, there is still time. And for the rest of you, I’d like …