The “Super Committee” has now failed and the stock market dropped. We’re in a tizzy over imaginary actions that never happened, caused by something that wasn’t. The Dayton Daily News proclaims housing is rebounding in Dayton today. Really? How do we come up with these superlatives without any real justification? I was having a short Read More
In Jewish culture one of the highest ranking “mitzvahs” (good deeds) is to give someone a job. The old adage about “give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach him how to fish, he eats for a lifetime” is in the same vein. Yet, the most highly paid fishing instructors in this Read More
I read an interesting editorial by Rance Crain in Ad Age wondering why people haven’t blamed marketing for the financial mess. He makes a claim when business gets sidetracked, things go bad, and the main focus in business is selling things to a specific market. Things went wrong for Cadillac when they tried an entry Read More
How would you like it if all of a sudden, the government stepped in and decided to give your competition a few billion dollars- and make everyone else think your company is failing? That’s exactly what Hank Paulson and the Treasury department are doing to National City Bank- and Congress can’t get a straight answer. Read More
When I watched the debate on Tuesday night I could almost predict- line for line, word for word, what was going to come out of both candidates mouths. Even though the candidates were speaking extemporaneously, it was as if marketing has taken over and the brand message gets repeated over and over until we all Read More
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