Random Thoughts: Trust, Capitalism, Diets, Cyber Security
Jeremy Sacker
Experienced Dealmaker | 12 Successful Transactions (Personal & Private Equity) | Now Helping Business Owners as a Business Broker
These are just a few of the topics that I have considered writing articles about lately.?The articles are started and are aging in my Documents folder on my Macbook.?So, I thought I would just throw out some things to ponder.?
1.????Trust – This came back to me because I have a business meeting Monday with a company we would like to work with.?The owner was looking for a company to install lighting that wouldn’t just steal the lead.?This is not the first person that has shared a story like this.?Here is how it goes:
Mike (changed his name to protect his privacy) gets a call asking for recommendations for lighting and installation.?He sends the lead and POOF, they recommend someone elses product and win the business (and Mike loses).?The moral of the story is that it is not good business practice to bite the hand that feeds you.
2.????Diets – Diets fail.?Why??Because we were not “made” to eat the same things over and over.?Here is my theory:
Diets work in the short term because, in the beginning, we were hunter/gatherers.?We ate what was available.?In the spring it was leafy greens.?Summer, vegetables and fruits.?Fall was roots, and maybe some meat (cooler weather means meat lasts longer), and in the winter we ate meat.
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This is why all the diets work, for a short time.?Just my theory.?I keep thinking I should write a diet book, but then I realize what I just wrote is the book.?No more information needed.
3.????Cyber Security – DO NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY.?Protect your company’s assets and reputation.?Can’t happen to you??A very large company we do business with got an email that a vendors payment information changed, so they made the change.?They wired $100,000 to a scammer…the money was lost.?True story.?I know both parties.
4.????Capitalism – This is the root of all evil but also what makes the United States such a great country.?Most crime is committed because of money (stop and think about it – drugs, human trafficking, murder, theft).?On the other side, if we were not capitalists we would not have.?Sure, the United States is not perfect, but we have it better than most, if not all, other nations.
There are your random thoughts…maybe someday I will complete the articles, or even write that diet book.?(Don’t hold your breath).