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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...

Small Vicious Animals – Part 1

Don’t ever think a small animal is harmless. Life will defend itself regardless of its size. Don’t ever think you can crush a small competitor. It will defend itself to...

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...

Say It, Become It

There are disproportionately more Clay’s in the pottery business than people with other names. More people with the last name Singer sing and more Tyler’s tile than other folks. And...

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...

Hiring Too Fast vs. Hiring Prematurely

You may have heard the saying “Hire slowly. Fire quickly.” It is sage advice guiding us to take the necessary time to hire the right people the first go around,...

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...

First Mover Advantage Redefined

Remember that term “first mover advantage”? I’m sure you do. And I also suspect you realize that it is pretty much no longer relevant - at least as to how...

Experience Vs. Opinion

Everyone’s got an opinion. Only a few have experience. Experience trumps opinion. Every. Single. Time.

Competing On Convenience

Convenience. It’s one of your customers greatest desires. A house used to be a cave. Drinking water was in a river a mile away. Dinner was a day’s (or week’s)...

Competing On Convenience

Convenience. It’s one of your customers greatest desires.

A house used to be a cave. Drinking water was in a river a mile away. Dinner was a day’s (or week’s) hunt.

The cave has been replaced by a big heated building that is connected to a garage, so that you never need to travel more than a few steps to get inside. The river is now a faucet. And dinner is stored in a cold box- a mere foot or two from where you cook it. That’s why houses are everywhere and caves aren’t so popular anymore.

You would be a fool to think that the convenience game is over. Someone just needs to invent a way to make hot food come out of that cold box.

Competing on convenience is far from over. It’s just getting started.