Books

Since last week I’ve been sick so I’ve had to pull back on all activities (blogging, reading and drawing, for example). I’m still under the weather so I will be taking it easy to make sure I get enough sleep. Today’s post was one planned last week but I got sick, so now I’m catching up.This…

Remember how right after the Lehman Brothers fell into bankruptcy, companies started laying off people right and left? There was such an aura of fear that the economy would dive off the cliff. Banks were starting to fail, companies with a huge financial unit (GE for example) could not obtain short term loans, and politicians were…

“Change or die”. “They don’t want to change.” “Change is hard to do.” We’ve all heard those phrases before and we will keep hearing it over and over, probably over the next couple of decades. The next chapter in Making It In America is about change. He makes the case for change and, as usual, in…

Rule Three in Making It In America by John Bassett can be boiled down to give your employees the truths, the good, the bad and the ugly. And that’s really the essence of the chapter and I won’t belabor too much on it.But the author does talk about the outsize salaries in American companies. Here’s the…

This next chapter in Making It In America is very important: it’s about treating your people right. A lot of businesses and MBA’s have forgotten that it is regular people who help make businesses a success. Up until now, no business could exist without customers or without employees. You have to have both.John Bassett, the…

This post is related to Making It In America post.[ap_divider color=”#CCCCCC” style=”solid” thickness=”3px” width=”100%” mar_top=”20px” mar_bot=”20px”]I’m only going to talk about a few things in the book to lock in my brain some interesting points the author makes. I’m not going to discuss everything because you should read the book. He has some great stories to…