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Easy Peezy

Creamy center = sketch of business plan

We used to have a running joke within my group which surfaced every time more demands were placed on us.  “It’s the Internet,” we’d say, “how hard can it be?”  As companies have found out with increasing frequency of late, it can be quite hard indeed. Continue reading

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The Beginning

The critic Anatole Broyard once opined that

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Today is one of those days that isn’t. – Please keep reading >

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Where’s Moe?

Moe Howard

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“What’s that for? I didn’t do nuthin’!” “That’s in case ya do and I’m not around!”
Larry and Moe (HOI POLLOI, 1935)

One of the things I do as a consultant is to provide experience to inexperienced professionals.  Generally, these are people who don’t have a lot of years in business or a lot of years in the particular business in which they now find themselves.  In a few words, I’m the grown-up. Continue reading

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