Your house is for sale.
A potential buyer comes along. You are happy. You let the buyer know that you’d love to sell to him. You don’t look for other offers.
Merchandise sales have become a money-maker for performers. By gaining trademark protection for chosen phrases, Swift will become the only one legally permitted to sell T-Shirts and other items branded with her protected intellectual property.
Don’t do what your competitors are doing just because they’re doing it or because you might get some award for it.
Despite all you do to prevent it, all the systems and all the rules, when humans are involved, things can and will go wrong.
People — all of us, from Joe and Josie on the street to hospital administrators on the third floor — have an innate desire to be led.
Want to make a deal? Sure you do. Perhaps it’s the renewal of an exclusive contract. Perhaps it’s an extension of your office lease. Perhaps it’s a rate increase in a payor agreement.
The root beer was ice cold. The burger hot, it’s cheese melty. It was a special blend of distant, delicious, almost forbidden fruit.
They set out to develop a high grip glue. But it completely failed. They eventually made hundreds of millions.
What those hospitals are really doing is training more physicians to become hospital-employed or hospital-controlled managers in order to monitor, cajole and threaten the members of the medical staff to follow mandated cost cutting measures.
When my kids were younger, we used to play a game when we left a store…