Steve Sipress
Head Rhino & Chief Strategist
A couple of weeks ago, Babs and I visited SoHo in New York. It is such a vibrant mish-mash of chain stores, entrepreneurial shops, independent bookstores, and great restaurants to…
The question of business ethics came up. Folks, it’s story time. Once upon a time, Grandfatherly old Napoleon Hill, who we all think we know and love, discovered what’s most…
I think we can all agree, winning the lottery would be nice. But let me ask you a question. How much time do you spend thinking and wishing about winning?…
At my first engineering job there was a guy in the next cubicle named Boris. He was a Russian immigrant. Boris explained to me what it was like to stand…
In the past 200 years, capitalism has made great strides in increasing employment and the quality of life for more people in more places than any other structure. Even Karl…
There’s a story about World War II that I like. It may or may not be true, but it illustrates a good point. The Second World War was tremendously costly…
I was told the following story the other evening and I was so touched I needed to share this narrative with you … A few years ago, at the Seattle…
There’s a cable TV show called “Storage Wars.” It’s about self-storage units where the owner didn’t pay his bill. The manager saws the padlock off the door and buyers bid…
In the 1990s, Strategic Coach had an enormous streak of luck: The exchange rate between Canada and the United States was phenomenally good. Most of our costs were in Canada,…
We each started our respective businesses because we wanted to do more of what we love. What many of us never foresaw was how difficult it sometimes is to cut…
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