I am flabbergasted. I have been interviewing, trying to hire a property and leasing manager. The applicants are so unskilled, unprepared, it’s really does amaze me. I wrote several articles last year about resumes and looking for a job, and I am amazed at the crappy resumes I get, but that’s all BEFORE the interview.

A client from my consulting business asked me a question recently that surprised me. It was a question that revealed a deeper problem.. Their business had experienced a drop in monthly sales from $180,000 to $137,000. That kind of drop affects his ability to buy inventory and keep momentum. His sales dropped because he lost

  How Are We Going to Get There?   When my partners and I bought Ford’s auto recycling subsidiary, it was losing huge buckets of money. As we prepared our financial forecast on the turnaround, the asset based lender and venture capital firm that were our stakeholders wanted to understand exactly how we were going