Innovation

In his must read book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini explains that people are prone to trust taller people more than shorter people. So, size does matter after...

Losers bet on the big hit. Millions lineup for the massive lottery ticket. Millions will spend one dollar and one minute buying a ticket, hoping to get rich. Thousands will...

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...

It seems most entrepreneurs fear the big players in their industry. We set our guns on the industry Goliath because if we can take them down, we can then take...

Sam Walton once said that he believed he was K-Mart's best customer. He visited the K-Mart stores throughout the country every chance he had. On one particular visit, Walton discovered...

The Olympics are just around the corner. Just like the prior Olympics and the ones before that, the first place medal winners will be two seconds or two inches or...

Business is full of assumptions. It's just the way it is, I assume. The term "bankers hours" came about because of the limited, unaccommodating hours they kept. Banks were open...

There is one common ingredient in every successful business venture, in every life changing invention and every extraordinary entrepreneurial endeavor: Every success started with a belief that it could be...

Google changed the search engine rules established by Yahoo, MSN and AOL (remember them?) from tons of news and ads on a search page, to a simple box. Then Google...

In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz shares why it is so easy to give great ideas, and why it is so hard to actually do them.