I talk alot in my writings about the role of luck and timing in business success. What if you could buy luck? That would make it alot easier. Now you can…on EBAY!

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I am a big proponent of doing one thing at a time. That is why I was surprised by the recent survey given in a national business magazine about what people do in the bathroom besides the obvious:

47% Talk on the Phone (Can you hear me now?)

23% Watch Television (I can’t believe this many people […]

From the most recent WCRT Newsletter:

• Set a goal to be here a year from now
• Put the relational over the transactional.
• While you can do it alone, you’re still alone.
• Don’t just do it, just test it.

Going to the Dry Cleaners can be profound. On Saturday morning, my sons and I usually do errands. We went to pick things up at the dry cleaners. The Korean woman that owns the place loves to see my sons. After hugging them, she stepped back and very profoundly looked at me and said, "Mr. […]

We have all heard of the "first mover advantage" that is, the person that establishes a viable business in an area has an advantage. I am unsure of this concept because we saw alot of situations where being first over the last 5 years was not necessarily a benefit.

While I was in Detroit last week […]

My Uncle Howard passed away this week. He was a famous university biology researcher. He published alot of books and articles although I did not know that much about his work except it had to do with rats and sex. My father and him were not close and I probably only saw him less than […]