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What would you do if it were your store?

Welcome back and if you came by to make a comment some of my comments get moderated but I’ll get it moderated within a day unless I’m on vacation.

I’ve got a new plugin that enables you to subscribe to comments to see if anybody comments on your comment. You’d hate [...]

Trick yourself into seeing it for the first time… again.

When your biggest problem is your most senior employees then your biggest problem may be you! As a manager I’ve been fortunate to get crews that stick around and continue to work for me and then I have said to myself, “Well, they know what they’re doing. There’s no reason for me to nag them [...]

Replaceable isn’t Disposable

There’s a saying in business that nobody’s indespensible. That every employee can be replaced. It’s true. In the past two years the company I work for has changed ownership I think 3 times. If even the owner of a company can change I think it’s a sure bet that an overnight janitor at one of [...]

Stewardship & Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, and while I’m not a fan of fake holidays or one day events that are supposed to draw attention to a topic but don’t effect actual change, I’d have to live in a hole to not comment on it. It’s expected. Earth day. Great American Smoke Out. Black out hour or [...]

What is on the other side?

I have a thing for hills. I knew it early on and haven’t really tried to stop myself from indulging myself when it comes to hills. I like to know what’s on the other side of them.

When I lived in Germany one of our houses (we moved, didn’t have multiple houses at the same time) [...]