These are the 11 companies profiled in Good to Great (2001) and how they looked in 2010. Abbott Laboratories → Stock up 0% Circuit City → Bankrupt Fannie Mae → Placed in conservatorship Gillette → Bought by P&G Kimberly-Clark → Stock up 1% Kroger → Stock up 0% Nucor → Stock up 4-fold Philip Morris → Stock down 20% Pitney Bowes → Stock down 20% Walgreens → Stock up 0% Wells […]

All Worked Up About Hedgehogs Sometimes we buy online to save time. Other times we buy online to save money. So what, exactly, is the “one big thing,” the unique selling proposition of online business? When we can’t wait the day or two for Amazon Prime, we buy from local brick-and-mortar companies to save time. And when […]

La Dimora di Pesce (Abode of the Fish) Monica Ballard <monica.ballard@wizardofads.com> Jul 29, 2019, 8:56 PM to Indy Saluti, Indiana! “Il Pozzo” is Italian for “the water well.” Following my hostess down three flights of circular stone steps, I understand the meaning of the gallery’s name when I stare into a green glass-top covering over a well […]

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Now a fish, it kind of likes the water,It’s just where he’s bound to be.And a monkey kind of digs bananasSo he lives in the top of a tree.But my eyes are made for darknessSo the nighttime is right for me. I said I’m a night owl, honey,Sleep all day long. Now most folks, they […]

When you’re in “inside” sales, customers come to you.When you’re in “outside” sales, you go looking for customers. When I was a baby ad-man in outside sales, I had the good fortune to spend a day with Gene Chamberlain. He taught me three things that day that made me a lot of money. Today I’m […]

I have long heard the sound of the French language in the paintings, architecture, music and food of France. Likewise, the sound of the German language is in the paintings, architecture, music and food of Germany. And the sound of Italian is in the paintings, the architecture, music and food of Italy. Do these connections […]

Roy, I think ye be correct. Part 1 … People are like Water … we become what we touch. It’s like water. We think of water as water, but the characteristics of water depend on where it comes from and what it touches. Water is the universal solvent. It becomes whatever it comes in contact […]