I am now half-way through Bob Woodward’s Fear and believe it is the most over-hyped book since Paul Ryan began promoting Atlas Shrugged as the inspirational equivalent of the Bible. Nothing in this latest bestseller makes Donald Trump scarier than I already imagined. What actually terrifies me is the possibility South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, someone with less … Read more
Sometimes Donald Trump tells the truth. The problem, of course, is that he lies so often and so much Americans tend to tune him out. But this past week, it has been hard to ignore the harsh reality there were occasions during the 2016 presidential race voters and the media should have paid more … Read more
Friday evening, in a last-ditch effort to save its Memorial Day weekend profits, Publix, “one of the 10 largest-volume supermarket chains in the country,” announced it would no longer make contributions to the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam. The news came minutes before a scheduled “die-in” organized by David Hogg, a survivor … Read more
I have never spent a day in a classroom in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, but based on the behavior of one of its undergraduates, there is only one of two possibilities. The faculty of this prestigious institution does not understand the foundations of successful enterprises (which I doubt) … Read more
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