Covenants not to compete. Cultivating new business opportunities.

“We’re screwed. The hospital won’t renew our contract.”

I’m not really one for documentaries, but I recently watched, for the second time, Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

I’ve been thinking today about Pareto-type distribution, you know the “80/20 rule,” and physician employment.

In a personal services business, from medical groups to acute care hospitals, what’s more important, your people or your tangible assets?

What parent hasn’t heard those words?

You’ve seen it before. Some customer in a store is bitching and moaning about something. I’m not saying that he might not have a point. But the way he goes on and on and on, the way that he’s rude to the store staff, it’s just too much.

When I was 14, my friend Steve and I were stopped by the police for breaking into a car.

The harder you work, the more you make.

The smarter you work, the more you make.

As a recent Wall Street Journal article recounts, Japanese manufacturers, once the world’s leaders in electronic goods and especially in cell phone technology, lost big in the switch to smartphones.