As I write this newsletter, we are one quarter of the way through the year. It’s always a bit hard to believe how quickly the days turn into weeks, and then months and then quarters. But let’s not get ahead …
What metrics do you track when tangible results are in the future? It’s important to have goals but setting a goal without a clear action plan is usually a plan for failure. And there are times when it just isn’t …
D4 or “D to the 4th power” is a new term I coined earlier this month as I watched two acquisitions crash and burn on a Friday afternoon within two hours of each other (almost to the minute). As I …
“Cash is King” is an old expression in business. But I largely ignore cash. Sure I check in on it at the end of the month but on a day to day basis nothing could be further from my mind …
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 …
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 …
It’s nice when you seek expert advice from several sources and end up with consistent recommendations that both make intuitive sense and are in line with research you’ve done. But that doesn’t always happen; so what do you do when …
Over spring break, I was on a scuba diving trip with my son. It was his first open water dive since being certified. After the dive, we took our gear to the car, and I returned to the boat. There …
