Plan a Trip, But Won’t Plan Your Life

Life is a Business – Chapter 9 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future If you have decided where you want to go, where’s the map and driving plan? If we agreed to meet at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in LA at 12:00 noon in 7 days, what...

What’s Your Mission Statement

Life is a Business – Chapter 8 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future Most of the mission statements I have read over the years are tortured, plastic slogans, more for marketing than real meaning. They all tend to sound out the same general...

The Right To Succeed Must Be Earned

Life is a Business – Chapter 7 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future In 2006, when I decided to create Metalworking Solutions, I knew that I could not do it alone with the resources Jan and I had worked 35 years to save. I knew how to be...

You Cannot Do It Alone

Life is a Business – Chapter 6 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future Quit playing the martyr! You cannot do it alone. You were not born in a log cabin that you built yourself…you did not walk 10 miles to school in the snow (uphill both...

Ethics

Life is a Business – Chapter 5 A series of essays on the past, the present, and the future When I was in my early 20’s, I asked an older guy the definition of “business ethics”.  He quickly told me: “They were what the old guys on top of the hill roll downward...