This past Friday I had planned to travel to Minneapolis (normally a 5 hour drive) for a 1pm appointment. Having left a litte before 7am I felt comfortable I would have no problem keeping the meeting. I knew there was early season snow storm crossing the Western part of Wisconsin, but was … [Read more...]

Each year since 2001 as we approach the fall show in Chicago I become somewhat introspective.  September 11th, 2001 fell squarely in the middle of what had all the signs of being a very successful show for our five year old company.  That potential success all but evaporated with the terrorist … [Read more...]

First, I have not stopped writing.¬† I just hit a very busy stretch of business travel over the last four weeks.¬† I have three or four good golden nuggets ideas in the hopper (a couple thanks to my editor Michael Woods).¬† Keep in mind that comments on the posts I make do encourage me to post … [Read more...]

While I have spoken with many of you face-to-face about this topic, I have chosen to not address it here for many reasons. First among those reasons was a desire to make sure that the merger actually happened. As of this morning visiting either the gretagmacbeth.com or xrite.com website will take … [Read more...]