Archive for November, 2008
I’ve got a big reason to be thankful
It could have easily gone the other way…
One of our portfolio companies, Kanon Group (a residential design/build remodeling company) had a crisis this week. On Tuesday night one of our project managers, Dave Sabatino, was in a very serious accident. Serious enough that he had to be cut out of the vehicle. Serious enough that his van looked like this when it was all over. In a set of really freakish circumstances I happened to be driving by the accident scene only a few moments after the accident occurred.
I don’t scare easily, but…
The Next New Year
2009 seems out of control.
You don’t have control over the economy. You don’t have control over who is in political office. You don’t have control over how deep this recession goes. You don’t have control over when credit and financial markets are going to normalize. Are you losing sleep yet?
So what do you have control over?
You have control over planning for 2009 as best you can. Here are 6 things that will help you be as prepared as possible (and help you sleep better). Some of them we all know but rarely do. Go do them. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re not in Kansas anymore…
With all that is happening in the world today you may be getting an unsettling feeling in your gut. There is a lot of change going on. Some of it good. Some of it bad.
With the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president, a democratically controlled house and senate, a crashing and burning economy, a worldwide credit crisis, and technology advancing at the speed of light, it is clear that the landscape of the world is changing rapidly.
As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz:
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
I ran across this video on the web the other day while reading the Monday Morning Memo from Roy Williams. Check it out. Read the rest of this entry »