Business Books and other Drivel

I’m a big fan of popular business books. I’ve been reading them since my introduction to Tom Peters and Bob Waterman wrote In Search of Excellence in 1988. I also go thru phases where I really enjoy the rah rah feeling that comes from self-help and motivational literature. These I make even better by listening [...]

The Third Place

I read Howard Schultz’s book about the beginning of Starbuck’s. I started reading it because I had heard a rumor that 16 years passed between the opening of the first and second Starbuck’s and that was inspirational to me as we entered our 16th year at Port-to-Port Consulting. It turned out, the rumor wasn’t true. [...]