This is the time of the year when everyone is wishing you good luck.  It’s a great sentiment and certainly everyone would like to have a bit more good luck…especially after the last few years.  However Luck isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…in fact it turns out that what you do with the Luck […]

  When an entrepreneur is just starting out, the instinct is to land any kind of business that will generate revenue.  And for the first 6 to 12 months of your business, that’s a good idea – you started with a grand vision and now you need to prove out what your new clients are […]

The first thing most of us think about when it comes to habits are the little personal things we all do without thinking: brushing your teeth, your specific bedtime routine, watching gladiator films when it rains, stuff like that.  We generally don’t think of ‘safety first’ as a habit…and it’s unlikely that we would imagine […]

This past week a business I have some affiliations with announced a change of ownership. A new President/Owner is taking the reins and leading the organization into the future. It was not an overnight knee jerk decision by the previous owner; in fact it had been months in the making. It was quietly done for […]

Photo by Nick J Webb The Olympics Games in London have come to a close. As with every Olympics there are magical moments of greatness that inspire you and moments that tear at your emotions when you know an athlete has put every ounce of their heart and soul into their event but on that […]

Cartoon by Tom Fishburne This week various groups and organizations around Kansas City are kicking off Kansas City Entrepreneurship Week (there’s a Global week is in November).  The activities are part of the growing initiative to make Kansas City the nation’s most entrepreneurial city (part of the Big 5 initiatives announced by the Kansas City […]