Election 2016: What we can learn to run better businesses
Most of us don’t ever plan on running for president or even local government, but there stands something we can learn from the 2016 election. This has been one of the most entertaining races to the office yet, filled with passionate, political…. brands. You got it, in...
West Michigan: No longer Michigan’s best kept secret
Story in yesterday’s Detroit News showed that once again Ottawa and Kent Counties led the the State of Michigan in population growth in 2015. It’s no wonder. Growing up in Wayne County I had the typically parochial view that the Detroit area was where...
In the news
Every once in awhile, we like to take a little bit of our own advice and get out in the news. We were honored when the Grand Rapids Business Journal reached out to Randy this month for a feature in their Inside Track segment. In case you missed it in print,...Banning overused words
This year, we’ve decided to clean up our language a little. Far worse than any multitude of classical curse words are the flagrant utterances of corporate marketing speak. Inspired by the annual list released at Lake Superior State, here are five we’re...