I had my first job when I was 5 years old. Our neighbor, my best friend at the time, was a boy of the same age as me whose father worked for an egg processing company. He, the father, asked me if I wanted to work a few hours with his son at the plant. It was a Saturday and they had to do some rush job on eggs for the army.

It sounded fun ...
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Some businesses grade their performance on year over year, "same store", comparisons. That means if sales are up over the previous year, taking into account the same number of production units, the business is doing well. If there are more production units, which could be new stores or production plants or employees in production, then sales ought be up more than enough to cover the new means of production.

I see this as "rear view mirror" ...
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I am taking a very interesting class from Michael Roberto. This came up recently and I thought it worth posting here.

The take-away is to look closely at our thinking today to be as certain as possible that it is valid for, at least, tomorrow morning. Chris Reich


"USC Professor James O’Toole once identified the core assumptions of the management team at General Motors in the 1970s, when they were on top of the ...
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You must make a business decision?

Start by deciding HOW the decision will be made rather than WHAT decision you should make.

Define the decision making process first, then go to work on the decision.

This will save you many, many missteps in business.
Chris Reich, TeachU.com

Google recently made changes to their ranking algorithm. Read an important tip about dealing with the change here:

Can Negative Parameters Tell You If You Were Hit By Google’s Penguin Update?

Try adding "-amazon" or "-ebay" to your query