Breaking free of the entropy trap
Some time ago, as a favor to a friend, I hired a young woman to answer our phones. But when she was being trained…it quickly became apparent that there was something off about this [...]
Too old to get caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
I have a two-year-old grandson who, in my humble opinion, is on the verge of being spoiled by his mother (my daughter). Here’s what I mean. When the little guy acts out, which is [...]
A day in the life of a tow company owner turned upside down.
Came an email from a long-time acquaintance. Does this sound familiar? _ After responding to an accident, my driver had to wait more than 45 minutes before being cleared to perform a recovery on [...]
Competitors clicking on ads and wasting your money
A long time ago, when I was a kid, one of my jerky friends, whose name I’ve since forgotten, told me how he and another buddy spent untold hours over Summer break attempting to [...]
Pizza delivery Dave and the Golden Goose
In my early 20s, I delivered pizzas to make some extra cash. One day, a new guy named Dave came on board. He was trained, per usual, riding along with another driver for a [...]
Why your bank account is stagnating
They say when you worry you're expending a lot of negative energy needlessly. Instead of worrying, another option might be to take no action at all and attribute whatever follows to fate. Neither route [...]
How to increase profits by providing options
Did you know that when elephants are trained, they use the same size rope for baby elephants as they do for adults? It’s true. When they begin training, they place a relatively small rope [...]
Might as well sell door to door
I was checking Marketwatch the other day, as I have some money invested in the stock market. And since I was using a Chrome browser at the time and was not a subscriber to [...]
Good Cheap, and Fast, you can’t have them all
Well, well. My prediction has come to light. The crackdown against “Predatory Towing” is happening. Late last year, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), which is basically a mouthpiece for many of the trucking [...]
Employees will stay when you’re invested in them
The story goes that Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, one day came into his factory and asked how many cars had been built that day. He was told the number was [...]
