What can we learn today from the Costco rotisserie chicken?
Big Red Car here on a sunny Monday, headed to a warm afternoon. Ahh, on Earth as it is in Texas, Austin By God Texas!
So, what can a CEO learn about how Costco sells rotisserrie chicken, you ask. The Costco rotisserie chicken!
Leaving NYC, Big Red Car, who’s leaving New York now? Financial enterprises.
Big Red Car here in the slightly gray ATX – still, On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all!
A recent announcement that NYC headquartered AllianceBernstein Holding LLC was moving its headquarters and 1,000 jobs to Nashville caught my attention.
It is a phenomenon which is playing out right here in Austin and Texas, in general. Firms and individuals are leaving California, Chicago, and NYC to relocate to Texas and its pro-business, nice weather, no taxes environment.
Nashville has some of that Southern mojo working in its favor, but this is all about money – real estate, taxes (state and city), employment expense, and flight from an ever increasing burden.
Green Mesquite the Big Red Car’s favorite BBQ joint. Come on down, y’all. BBQ on the Big Red Car!
It is about the money, y’all.
According to the New York Times, Robert Swan Mueller III wants to pose the following questions to President Donald J Trump.
Before we go there, do you think these questions are the real thing?
If so, who leaked them? Why?
Trust? How does a CEO build and recognize trust?
Big Red Car here on a gray and gloomy day. Still, it’s the ATX and that’s fine by me.
Trust, Big Red Car? Where did that come from?
The Libya Solution? Really, Big Red Car?
Big Red Car here going North Korea on y’all. You know I served in the Republic of Korea in the Army back in the 1970s, so I have always been interested in all things Korea.
I used to spend time on the DMZ on my belly studying the goings on in North Korea. Plus, I used to build artillery positions and GSR (ground surveillance radar) sites on the top of mountains to shoot or spook into NK.
The Boss back in the day, freezing while overseeing the building of a road to the top of a mountain to build an artillery firing position. That’s North Korea in the background. My favorite thing about the Army — a constant supply of Jeeps. The radio on that Jeep could reach to Saturn.
So, when it began to appear like we were headed to war in Korea, I followed it closely.
Now, it looks like Kim Jung Ping Pong is going to come to President Trump’s table with some peace offerings in hand.
I give President Trump the credit for his bellicose approach to the nuclearization of the Hermit Kingdom because he scrapped “strategic patience” and substituted “fire and fury” in its place.
Who dreamed up “strategic patience” and how does it differ from not doing anything while Kim and his buddies figured out to make nukes and rockets capable of reaching Dallas?
Clean energy is hard to be against unless its cost is an issue.
The Big Red Car is here for y’all on a cloudy day in the ATX. Talking clean energy.
Clean energy is a big umbrella which covers solar, wind, water, geothermal, bioenergy, and nuclear. Hello, America, NUCLEAR?
OK, so maybe the DOE definition of clean energy took it one step too far, but that’s what they say.
Apple (2018) and Google (2017) have announced that 100% of their energy needs worldwide are being supplied by clean energy. They also pull the definition a bit further by adding “renewable” to their definition.
Anybody surprised these two companies are leading the way on this?
Energy, today we focus on energy.
Big Red Car here after an afternoon of menial labor. I like menial labor, I do.
So, today we talk about how a startup, a small business, or a medium size business deals with energy.
First, there are energy sources and energy sinks. An energy sink is an absorber of energy. We will come back to this issue of energy sinks. Now, we focus on creating, maintaining, and multiplying energy.
Here is an example of a dragon projecting energy, hence, the name “dragon energy.” Haha, Kanye and Donald, both DRAGON ENERGY.
Fire breathing dragons are sources of energy. Usually, they have eaten burritos with jalapenos.
Every enterprise is, essentially, an energy equation. Let’s apply that to business, shall we?
Today we talk brilliant political messaging, y’all.
Big Red Car here on a brilliant, sunny Sunday morning. Ahh, on Earth as it is in Texas — Austin By God Texas, y’all.
So, the President gave a cold shoulder to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, electing instead to fly out to Washington County, Michigan and give a campaign style speech about the accomplishments of his administration and the upcoming mid-term elections.
For those keeping score at home, President Obama carried Washington County twice, while President Trump won it by 11%. One might say that that transformation was symptomatic of President Trump’s victory. He flipped a county which twice elected Barack Obama.
For a few minutes, jettison your own “NeverTrump or “TrumpisGod sentiments and step back. Abandon your biases. Let’s discuss messaging, political messaging, in particular.
OK, it’s a long speech and I don’t expect you to listen to the whole damn thing. Just get the flavor of it. It’s a red meat speech.
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