by The Alpha Dawg | Sep 10, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
Whether he actually said it or not, one of Henry Ford’s most famous quotes is, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” When he was the president of Ford, Lee Iacocca and his staff played off that legend, finding equine names for...
by The Alpha Dawg | Aug 7, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
I was sitting in a big comfortable chair in the mall just outside the second-level entrance to Macy’s department store. I was extremely lucky to have secured one of the big comfortable chairs, because every last one of them was occupied. There was a family of five...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jul 13, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Jim's Thoughts
You’d have to have been in a coma since 1991 if you haven’t seen that clip from “A Few Good Men.” Tom Cruise is grilling Jack Nicholson in court. “I want the truth!” says Cruise, in the role of the smarmy lawyer. Nicholson, playing a battle-hardened Marine colonel,...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jun 14, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
Life really sucks if you’re a salmon in the Upper Northwest. They’re just trying to get home to start a family. As if the journey wasn’t perilous enough, a long line of grizzly bears is waiting to eat two out of three of them before they get upstream. Poor bastards....
by The Alpha Dawg | May 7, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
I have visited five cities in three weeks, traveling to the North, South, East and West through some of the worst and most erratic weather of the year. I went from warm weather with pollen raining down everywhere to the snow, cold temperatures and wet, windy weather...
by The Alpha Dawg | Apr 18, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
Party on, Garth! Light-vehicle sales showed a year-over-year increase of 8% in February. Of course, that’s coming off of a January in which winter storms ground sales to a halt. Still, statisticians, industry experts and analysts are predicting the possibility of a...
