E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

The other day I was at Alterra on Humboldt and was surprised to see them use heating to keep their outside space usable during winter. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the business reason for it, and if anyone else did that I would not give it a second thought. However, Alterra is very emphatic [...]

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While it took me about 20 pages to really get in to “A Hat Full of Sky,” I found myself really enjoying it and being pleasantly surprised with not being able to put it down until I was done reading. This book is a pretty good work of fiction, but it also has a number [...]

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My approach to risk analysis starts with the following concept: If I was a gremlin, who did not want to get caught or be seen, but could stick my fingers in to every aspect of the business, what would I do to sabotage a particular business. Fortunately for the gremlin, many businesses don’t need sabotage [...]

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Over the last few days, I have had a chance to read through Doug’s latest book: The Failure of Risk Management. Once you get past the bitter/angry tone (justifiably so) of that the chapters detailing the bad practices currently employ, the rest of the book is worth its weight in the most precious metal. If [...]

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A friend of mine had me over to watch “Fireproof”. It is actually a fairly decent movie, with a good heart, if you get past the first 10 minutes or so of really bad acting /editing. It is brilliant as a marketing ploy to cross sell lots of other products.
But that is not what I want to [...]

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