2.22.2012

Hoping Your Way To Better Results.

Every successful business idea starts with hope. Getting results over the long term requires more than an intellectual creativity for coming up with new ideas. It demands emotional attachment. You can cut employees. You can trim budgets and eliminate redundancies.

2.20.2012

Anger Isn’t A Strategy.

Not getting along isn’t a winning strategy for long-term success. You just end up looking like a fool. While it’s only human that you have an opinion, forcing your opinion on everyone else all the time just isn’t a winning

2.16.2012

11 Game-Changing Companies Who (Successfully) Broke The Rules.

There are rules and guidelines that limit what is possible to achieve. Rules that we all somehow agree to. Rules about the cost of doing business. About profit, loss, and reinvestment. Rules about possibilities. Rules dictated by shear elemental constraint.

2.13.2012

How To Get Places.

The only step that matters is the next one. Where you were before is just history. Where you end up is a result of where your next step takes you. It is all too easy to let complex business problems

2.8.2012

You Already Know What To Do.

You know everything you need to know. What you don’t know, you can find out in seconds. Take a look. There are more “how-to” articles on the web that ever before. There is a “fast, five-step plan” for just about

2.2.2012

Pitching Tomorrow Better.

How things look today is different from how you saw them yesterday. It’s different today then it will be tomorrow. How you feel today will change tomorrow. You probably won’t change your beliefs and it’s likely that big problems won’t

2.1.2012

The Lie of Recurring Revenue.

One of the recently trendy business strategies over the last decade is the idea of creating “recurring revenue”. The basic concept is that you can create content and marketing that together drive sustainable revenue long after the content is first

1.27.2012

It’s Not About What You Do.

Business experts will tell you that if you think hard enough and plan long enough that you can generate ideas and strategies that avoid obstacles and end up leading to your success. But that’s just not reality. And you shouldn’t

1.26.2012

Creating Angry Mobs.

There’s always a reason to complain about something. There is always a big guy picking on a small guy. A monster doing depraved things to unsuspecting victims. These plot lines run through our business speak on a daily basis. It’s

1.25.2012

Avoiding Accidental Awfulness.

It’s easy to excuse away mistakes that you make. Especially when someone gets hurt. “It was an accident” you find yourself saying. And magically, because you claim that it was an accident, everybody around you is supposed to be okay.