Days after the Volkswagen diesel emissions fraud became public, a marketing expert named Marianne Griedler asked whether Volkswagen has smashed its brand promise beyond repair. I am very interested in this issue because I am one of those car buyers who was looking for...

“Price and value are not the same”- Warren Buffet One of the eight factors that contributes to your company’s sellability is your financial performance - not surprisingly, your current revenue and profitability along with your expected and “provable” growth. Upon...

It has been said that those who made financial resolutions at the beginning of 2015 are more likely to be more optimistic and feel more financially secure as we begin 2016.  Just making a plan and resolving to improve financial well-being seems to have big benefits,...

What to do you see? 　When I look at this image, I see life and wisdom and experience and history and love and stories that make my head spin. This is Grandma Kay. She is a brilliant, loving, cantankerous, feisty, opinionated and devoted mother of 1, grandmother of 2,...

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”- Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder. Nobody builds a company to stagnate. You build it to grow and often to sell. Understanding your company value is critical. In most cases that means building on...

There is a definite shift in the language of health care these days … for a number of years we have been hearing words like “accountability”, “transparency”, and “collaboration”. Or you might have heard the terms “governance”, “integration”, and “evidence-based”.  But...