I have bought a lot of stuff on eBay over the years. I even bought a Jeep on there and had it shipped from New Hampshire. The site used to be known as “America’s Garage Sale” but lately it has devolved into “just another shopping mall.” Heck, I’ve even bid on keyboards I thought were being sold by individuals only to find out they were from Newegg.com. My New Years resolution was to finally clean … Will the Last One to Leave eBay Please Turn Out the Lights?Read more
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McDonalds Problem is Not the Menu
There has been a lot of chatter about the financial situation at McDonalds (MCD) lately. All kind of chatter about revamping the menu, loss of market share, allowing more local store independence, etc. All of it is wrong. All of it is focused on the typical MBA thought process of “How can we change nothing and start making money again?” This process never works. It is based on the luck of some temporary downturn which … McDonalds Problem is Not the MenuRead more
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The Secret to Buying a 300K Mile Car
I’ve bought more than one vehicle from the Internet. Sometimes through car sales sites and other times on eBay auctions. People always ask me “How can you know you aren’t getting a pile of junk?” It is pretty easy. My real question to them is “Why aren’t you buying on-line?” You still pay the vehicle tax for your area when you register it so it isn’t like you are taking textbooks from children or cops … The Secret to Buying a 300K Mile CarRead more
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Labor Day and Minimum Wage
It should come as no surprise discussion about the minimum wage is heating up. Add in the fact an election is just around the corner and you find no shortage of politicians trying to talk out of both sides of their mouths to get your vote. There can be only one viewpoint when it comes to the massively widening gap between executive pay and the average employee. It’s an epidemic which dwarfs Ebola and most … Labor Day and Minimum WageRead more
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What if Microsoft Made Refrigerators?
This question came up today. Actually it came up a while back and I finally looked at the message today. What if Microsoft made refrigerators? The question is an apt one for business systems which is why so few MBAs think to ask it. If Microsoft made refrigerators they would periodically require a manual reboot, everything in them would spoil and you would just accept that. Well, you would accept it until you found out … What if Microsoft Made Refrigerators?Read more