Ross Perot used to tell we employees a story about his Lincoln.  He claimed that when he took it to the shop everyone was very nice to him. Yet he was always surprised that no one ever inquired about whether he would like to purchase a new car. He finally got cured of that story…

‘Futuramas’ in even the late 1930s and certainly by the early 1950s, had glorious views of what future America would look like.  Magazines of that era featured ‘work saving kitchens’ for Mom with mechanical dishwashers.  Traffic would move quickly on limited access ‘freeways’.  Better yet, we would all be whisked around town avoiding traffic with…

You will have to scroll down to the left on the B/W career page  to find this article.  But it is a good slide show about the common mistakes that interns make.  Internships are the way companies screen their employees, this is your big chance, don’t blow it.

Headline writers are always looking for reasons WHY something happens.  A recent example is yesterday’s headline that the stock market was down 147 points on sub prime woes.  Well sub prime woes are nothing new, it is simply that there are more and more headlines about them. This B/W article   reports that now consumers are…

Actually the reason I posted this article  was not for the six ideas. What I am wondering is a few questinons for Christy Hefner. Hey Christy, when will you or your team get the results up for Playboy?  Christy giving career advice, huh?  check out the financials for Playboy here.    Gee I think I…

Lately Bono, Simon Cowell, Bill Gates etc have been decrying the terrible conditions in Africa. And the conditions are terrible-but not for the lack of natural resources or creative people.  John Stossel  makes the point that Gates misses in his address to Harvard.  And as Stossel mentions, perhaps Gates would still not get it if…

Okay this is not about business or accounting but civilization itself.  Victor Davis Hanson  does his usual great job of framing the issue in classical terms.  Many futuristic films frame life in  quite a dreadful way. Mad Max , the original apocalyptic starring  Mel Gibson, showed a world dominated by greed for the disappearing resource…

Jerry Flint nails it again.  He makes the point that you canot cede a market to your competitor and expect to get it back.  And so the US has exited the luxury car market. Yep, Lincoln is fading with nothing in the pipeline, Cadillac is about it, but compared to BMW, Lexus, Audi, Mercedes, I…

The passing of Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas in 2002 has left the firm looking for a buyer.   You can check out the Wendy’s website. What’s wrong here?  Well the firm is profitable but gee the fast food field is crowded.  Burger King, MCD, Whataburger, Wendy’s, Jack in the Box, and now the rise of Subway,…

I recnetly suggested that it was whistling past the graveyard to ignore the real import of rising interest rates.  Well, now read how the Swiss have jumped on the bandwagon. One does not build a world wide banking system that stands the test of time unless one is a pretty good banker, the Swiss are.…