The title of today’s blog is a take-off on Michael Gerber’s classic book The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What To Do About It (Harper Collins, 1995). During my days at the Ewing Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, I had the pleasure of being the host of a one-on-one conversation with Michael … Read more
What do Donald Trump and I have in common? Both of us have been relatively silent for the past few days. Trump is trying to keep inconvenient legal matters from getting worse. In my case, it is the constant challenge of finding topics which are not already adequately covered on television, newspapers or on-line … Read more
How do you know you’ve made it to the big time as a blogger? One metric is whether you have become a the target of Russian trolls. Understanding the process how trolls work to first gain your trust and then use their access to your site for nefarious purposes is important. As a public service, … Read more
The title of today’s post comes from a regular segment on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. The objective is for each panelist to share an insight that may not have made the news or is an unexpected harbinger of things to come. Although Conor Lamb, the apparent winner of yesterday’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th … Read more
Why is this man smiling? At a rally for the Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, Donald Trump performed his impersonation of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president (for life) Xi Jinping. At issue was the increasing number of U.S. deaths attributable to drug addiction and overdoses. Trump’s target? Drug dealers! … Read more