Cycles are the seasons of business.

You have a lot of blood, sweat and tears in your business, don’t you? And maybe your head’s spinning after COVID, inflation, supply chain issues, labor challenges, increased costs…the list goes on and on. Things just keep coming around.

Running a business? Are you an owner? A manager? Are you a director, board member? A department manager? How well do you run your company? How well do you service customers? How well do you know your employees? How well do you know your vendors? How good is your team? …

QORVAL MAXIM: Sometimes the best “One” isn’t in the organization yet. Sometimes the best person for your role isn’t you. I recall a conversation my late partner and mentor Jim Malone and I had one time about the impact that transient managers have on an organization, and how those experiences…

Most companies have a senior executive or senior manager — the titles can vary, depending on a range of variables such as company size, number of employees, locations, the industry or industries the company operates in, whether it’s public, private, e.g. One company’s chairman & CEO is another’s owner/principal, general…

Effective Governance Is Shaped By “Objective Perspective” See the photo above? Do you see the problem with it? 10 seats. Even number. Boards should have critical mass and be comprised ideally of an odd number (5,7,9,11, e.g.) so as to facilitate majority voting. But that’s just one thing to keep in mind about boards. I’ve had the…

Knowing What’s Up Around The Bend Remember playing with slot cars? It didn’t take you long to figure out that the secret of racing was slow and careful into the turn, and lightning fast out of the turn. If you came in too hot to the turn, whoosh, your AFX, Tyco or Carrera slot car tumbled…

A Restart Can Be A Jump Start There are a number of ways a healthy, profitable business can change hands — succession, sale of the business — which can happen myriad ways such as asset purchase agreement, asset sale, stock sale, change in control, partial sale, e.g. Equally, there are many options and structures via which a…

Traveling is a catalyst that forces the recognition of symbols and patterns, just as it mixes metaphors in the mind. I find myself savoring the rather retro experience of walking across the runway, which feels firm underfoot, and my eyes dance from the conveyors moving luggage to the shiny painted…