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The 8 Best Ways To Give Employee Recognition

Happy employees - motivated employees - energetic employees. For your business to be the best in the industry, its great employees that will make a difference. The first step is...

Hero Defined

As I walked the Pepperdine University campus before my keynote, I came upon a September 11th memorial.  Deena Burnett is the wife of alumnus Tom Burnett, one of the heroes...

Twenty Seconds Of Bravery

My wife said, "It took twenty seconds of bravery." Three months later she keynoted to one hundred entrepreneurs and their spouses. Krista had never keynoted before. She had never done...

It's What You Do With What Happens

I have come to believe that the events we experience as entrepreneurs are the same for us all. The founders of Google and the founder of Spanx, experienced the same...

Make New Rules

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...

Place What You Want To Sell On The Right

The left side of the human brain performs, among other things, story telling. Not just story telling to others, but story telling to ourselves. When you look at that pretty...

The Danger Of Quoting Price Ranges

In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains how quoting price ranges set both the vendor and the client up for disappointment. Instead of quoting price ranges, quote...

Know More, No More

I don't care how many books you have read (I can suggest a couple, if you like) or how much business experience you have - there is always more to...

Twist & Turn Your Ideas

You're an entrepreneur. You're a relentless fountain of ideas. Ideas are good. But it is the great ideas that you need. Instead of yet another good idea, take an existing...

A Lesson From Wild Life

Any life, no matter how big or how small, will defend itself. Fighting a bear is ridiculously dangerous. But so is fighting a raccoon. If the animal is injured, it...

A Lesson From Wild Life

Any life, no matter how big or how small, will defend itself. Fighting a bear is ridiculously dangerous. But so is fighting a raccoon.

If the animal is injured, it is even more dangerous. It doesn’t have the ability to run. Its only option is to fight to the death.

People, and their businesses, are no different. Avoid head to head conflict with your competitors. Big or small, if you attack your competitors head on, they will fight you to utter exhaustion. If there business is already “injured” they will fight you to the very bitter end.

Do everything you can to avoid head to head conflict, regardless of the size of your enemy, it will exhaust you.

A blood thirsty racoon