Dec 9, 2019 | Business Strategy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWwcOHm5mZ8&w=560&h=315] This past weekend, I traveled to Victoria, BC to meet with fellow Rotarians in my Rotary district to interview high school students put forward by clubs for an exchange program. The students...
Dec 2, 2019 | Business Strategy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6BqJkPk5RM&w=560&h=315] This past weekend in college football was Rivalry Week. In essence, it’s that weekend when arch rivals clash and fan bases get crazy. Sometimes, too crazy. I follow Twitter to keep track of all...
Nov 25, 2019 | Business Strategy
Re-printed from 2018…Happy Thanksgiving! Being Thankful. It’s pretty easy to immediately think of the things I’m thankful for every Thanksgiving. My beautiful wife of 32 (now 33) years; my children that have grown into wonderful adults (and I include my...
Nov 21, 2019 | Business Strategy
As I turned in my final Kitsap Sun column for 2019, it dawned on me that this would be a perfect time to enlist ideas from my community for me editorial calendar for a new year and decade. As I begin plotting my topics for 2020, you can help me. What topics would you...
Nov 18, 2019 | Business Strategy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudMBke88H8] I remember my first real television. It was the mid-1970s and this big, brown, boxy Zenith was in the center of the living room. We had exponentially less channels than today; the local affiliates of ABC, NBC, and...
Nov 11, 2019 | Business Strategy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYuiNZjbUE&w=560&h=315] I’m preempting my normal missive to do something a little different. In past years, I’ve written on the history and significance to me of this special day. This year, I’d like...