Growth Strategies
February 6, 2014
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...
February 3, 2014
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...
February 1, 2014
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...
January 28, 2014
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...
January 22, 2014
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...
January 18, 2014
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...
January 15, 2014
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...
January 13, 2014
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...
January 11, 2014
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...
January 9, 2014
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...