by Leif Jensen | Jun 24, 2024 | Rant |
Recently I was watching tv and the show had the MacGuffin that the SS office had processed the death of a client, who was obviously still alive. So nothing new or original, except the ass backwards way they attempted to correct the issue. They went to court instead...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 10, 2024 | Rant |
After the Judge denied the merger between Penguin Publishing and Simon and Shuster. Penguin went through a massive round of layoffs and Simon & Schuster was sold to a private equity company instead. Private equity tends to have one game plan strategy: buy a...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 5, 2024 | Rant |
Every second book in America, ballpark, is being sold via e-commerce…Amazon.com has 50 million books available. A bookstore, a good independent bookstore, has around 50,000 different books available… an algorithm decides what is being presented and made visible and...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 3, 2024 | Rant |
My son sent me a story/article the other day which shared the stats from a DOJ case regarding Penguin wanting to buy Simon and Shuster. The deal was killed because of monopoly issues. Penguin has 37% of the market and Shuster has 11%, a merger would dominate the...
by Leif Jensen | May 1, 2024 | Rant |
You own your own business and make a decent living. Could you sell your business if you wanted to? Of do you actually own a job with client(s) who would leave if you thought about selling? I know a number of franchises are really built around owning a job and...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 24, 2024 | Employees, Rant |
Have you ever run into a friend or colleague or employee who was under the belief that they were so integral to the business that no one could ever replace them? I have known many over the years. All of them are wrong. Everyone is replaceable, no one is that...
