I’m as bad as anybody else about complaining about how it seems like everyone is either talking or texting, that none of us communicate in person like we used to, that it’s a big time waster, yadda yadda yadda. But perish the thought that I might have to ever go an hour without my smartphone! […]
Entrepreneurship
Why leadership will never go out of style…
Technology can be both an opportunity and a threat. On one hand, it’s a threat because a new technology can kill a great company or even an entire industry, regardless of how big a player in the industry an organization is. Imagine being Smith Corona and being a market leader in typewriters, then to do […]
You, me, and Warren Buffett?
I know for years now you’ve heard me say plenty of times, “Don’t cut the price, build the brand.” And I’ve given you plenty of reasons to think that way, and several of you have offered some even better reasons in your e-mails and posted comments as to why you refuse to compete on price, […]
But what is “the process”?
I know you’ve heard success is a process, not an event (ahem…that was last week’s post, after all…). But what, exactly, is this “process” we keep referring to? For the answer to that question, like so many that appear on the journey, we can simply go back to the basics. The very essence of the […]
Happy 4th – 2014
The 4th of July is always a good time to appreciate our men & women who have worn their country’s uniform. Feel free to revisit last year’s post if you like. But it’s also a time to recognize that the free market we enjoy was an original, grand experiment of our founding fathers that resulted […]
You are “Them?” You are “They?”
One of my favorite parts of the original Men in Black movie is where agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) of the Men in Black agency is giving new agent J (Wil Smith) a tour of the facility. J asks the question, “So…what branch of the government do we report to, anyway?” To which K replies, […]
The toughest decision you’ll ever make (the first time)
The most important decision you’ll make in your business is customer selection, or which customers you want as your target market. This should be true for any size enterprise, but it’s especially true if you own the business because 1) You have limited resources and you must invest those resources where they’ll produce the highest […]
How Seth Godin says to build your next business model…
Steve Jobs was known for passionately quoting Picasso’s “Good artists copy, great artists steal” line. At first read that may set off your ethical radar and cause the hair on the back of your neck to stand up. As it says in Ecclesiastes, there truly is nothing new under the sun, so “stealing” isn’t always […]