I get asked for advice often. Other times I just dole it out mindlessly. Sometimes I feel what I’m saying is so obvious I don’t even want to answer or share – I might...
Note: This was a journal entry written in late 2018 after sending a proposal to John Hancock – who owned the space on Copley Square we were considering at the time. We had a...
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by John Pepper · Published January 1, 2023 · Last modified January 3, 2023
So the story goes… on March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BC, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Brutus, who was Caesar’s friend and protégé. Grabbed this from Wikipedia not surprisingly. When I...
At the turn of the century, AOL was still in widespread use. It wasn’t just for grandparents. My family and I all used it (my Dad and Mom still do). In early 2000, my...
A few weeks ago, I realized that Boloco’s survival was no longer in my hands. Control of our fate rests in what I have shared with a few are the 3 remaining Gs –...
by John Pepper · Published September 3, 2018 · Last modified September 2, 2018
This was written in January 2015, before I had any idea I might be returning to Boloco. A real sign of internal struggle on remaining calm, not letting the small things get to me. Some names...
In early June, after a few months of reflection, I called off the quiet and informal search I had begun at the start of the year for a President & COO of Boloco. Instead,...
Boloco Team, The business world I’m trying to stay away from is exactly what Ron professes in this article from Entrepreneur Magazine. Here is a “titan of the restaurant industry” telling us: “fire more...
I got pretty close to sending this out by email from the main Boloco account today. Of course, that would have been suicide. But on my private little blog that nobody reads? No harm...
No, the fact that you “saw my profile” and want to “share leads and prospects” to increase my “ROI” (really? 🤣) is not of interest to me or really anyone I know. I’m sorry....
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