Growth Strategies

How To Do Everything (Hint: You Can’t)

Want to do everything? You can’t! What? Were you expecting a quick primer that would affirm your belief that you can do it all, AND teach you how to stay...

Things Won’t Change (So You Think)

It is human nature to believe that the present won’t change much. This winter season of brutal cold (if you live in the Northeastern part of the US) is the...

The Immediate Response Economy

I received an email yesterday afternoon asking me if I had received the email that same person sent me that morning, since I hadn’t responded yet. The email was not...

People Buy What They Try

If you are at a clothing store and you try on a jacket, you are more likely to buy it now. If you are at a food store and sample...

Budgets And Stick To Them

Just because you have a budget and planned your financials, doesn’t mean you’ll stick with it. In fact, entrepreneurs rarely do. What I have found to be effective though, is...

Not What You Expected

This morning I bit into a bagel with tomato and cream cheese. The problem was that the tomato wasn’t a tomato, it was a smoked salmon. I almost gagged to...

Small Vicious Animals – Part 2

If there is one thing more dangerous than a wild animal, it’s an injured one. If there is one thing more dangerous than an out of control competitor, it’s a...

Self Control

Promise me this: Promise that you will never ever again say you have self control. You don’t. Not always. And if you don’t have it always, you don’t have self...

How Long Can You Go?

Extreme is good. Extreme is awesome. Extreme is profitable. But when your extreme behavior is inauthentic, rooted in a desire to get attention by whatever means possible, extreme is bad...

Fix The Slowest Part Of The Chain

Every business, be it a service provider or a manufacturer, or a restaurant or insurance company, goes through a chain of activities to deliver its offering. To be in the...

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