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Previous Issues of Howe’s Bayou

  • Summer Jobs for Life

    by

    Brad Howe

    Our youngest son, Chuck, returned to Saudi Arabia last week. After ten days at home, he’s back in Qassim province, a three-hour drive north of Riyadh, helping his consulting team there to develop a strategy with the provincial government to broaden the economic advancement of the region. During the first four months of this engagement,…

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  • Gaining Purchase

    by

    Brad Howe

    “You know, we could buy this ,” I said. “Do you want to?” she replied. ” It meets all of our specs ,” I offered. “The kids will think we’re crazy, buying the first place we see,” said she. “But it beats going through 52 different houses like we did twenty years ago.” We made…

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  • The M & A Facebook Game

    by

    Brad Howe

    If you’re the owner of a small business with a presence in its marketplace, sooner or later you’re going to get a call from someone who professes an interest in buying your business or represents a third party with a similar interest. What do you say? What’s the screen to segregate the serious prospect from…

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  • If It Walks Like a Duck…

    by

    Brad Howe

    I am a counter. I count the number of jumps when I jump rope in the morning (600), the standard number of banana slices on my bowl of cereal (20), the number of fellow parishioners in church with me on Sunday morning (last week, Easter, hit 282), as well as the number of seconds between…

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