Category: MBAisms

Self-Employed People Almost Always Underprice their Services

I help people improve their overall financial health, wherever that task might lead, and, since a lot of my clients are self-employed people, I help a lot of them improve their self-employed financial health, i.e., I provide business consulting services to them. This can range from helping them decide whether […]

A Scale-Tale: How Big is a Business with 400 Employees?

I am a student of scale — a collector of scale-tales. It all began decades ago with the wonderful book The Seven Mysteries of Life, by Guy Murchie, a life’s-work sort of undertaking for him, full of interesting notions interspersed with the author’s cute drawings and beginning with a chapter […]

When You Get Financial Advice for Free, are You the Product?

If you do a Google search for the word MBAism, you’ll mostly find references to business degrees minted by the International School of Management, as in, an MBA from ISM. But that’s not what I use it for; I use the term to refer to widely-used sayings about business that […]