Monthly Archives: October 2008

Startups and Chicken Nuggets

How could an item on the menu of every fast food drive-through have anything to do with entrepreneurship?  Easy, both have everything to do with a wise investment of time and money. Learn more about our partner’s “McNugget Principle” by …

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Learning from the Hippocratic Oath

“primum non nocere” = first, to not harm This Latin tidbit actually comes from the Hippocratic Oath (the one doctors swear to).  But there is a lesson in there for all of us.  A business’s first goal every day should …

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Leadership

“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” -Erskine Bowles One of our partners wrote an article about what is needed to be a leader, which as noted above, is a very important part of any successful …

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Hyatt – A Case Study in Customer Service

I have traveled a lot.  In some years of my life, I have spent as much as 50% of the nights sleeping in a hotel.  But very few of those evenings have been spent in Hyatt hotels.  So, on a …

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