by BILL WADDELL Lying to and generally abusing customers has been around as long as business has been in business, but we seem to have reached a poin…

By Kevin Meyer I spent last week in Germany and The Netherlands, and as with any trip abroad I found it fascinating how other societies and political…

By Kevin Meyer Once again we’re coming up on holiday season, and once again we have a bunch of retailers and toy manufacturers who tried to guess the…

By Kevin Meyer A while back I described a conversation, albeit one-sided, that I had with my mother in-law regarding desired features in a home. As i…

By Kevin Meyer Several of us often comment, or lament, the term “lean and mean.” Real lean is definitely not mean, although we appreciate the desire…

By Kevin Meyer Boy those guys at Motorola really know how to run a business. Several months ago we told you about their “strategy” that included whac…

By Kevin Meyer I consider myself lucky in many respects, not the least of which is the fact that I live in one of California's premier wine-produ…

by BILL WADDELL James Weldon Johnson was quite the Renaissance man, if ever there was one.  A poet and a lawyer, a politician and a songwriter, and a…