The real jobs issue that nobody’s debating

Lies, damn lies & statistics

Borders, trade barriers and currency manipulation are getting lots of ink these days. The often explicit, and occasionally implicit contention is that manipulative foreign government…

Walmart, Manufacturing & Detachment

I’ve never been a Walmart fan. My first exposure was when I was assigned to military bases in the South. It was convenient and economical — but even then, as a young adult who should have been oblivious to the claustrophobia of narrow aisles, I didn’t quite feel…

It’s not a content creation problem — it’s the finishing that’s broken

Weary of the inbound marketing pablum?

You’ve heard it all. You’ve read the annual surveys (or actually probably seen the bar charts) that identify the gap…

What you know for sure that just ain’t so

Mark Twain nailed it.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Brexit offers a fascinating and way overanalyzed case study. None of the…

Manufacturing strategy and the relative costs of action vs. inaction

Most B2B sales today is based on an artificial construct — a single variable equation that EITHER seeks to raise the cost of inaction or discount the cost of action with lower price.