Anyone can run a company during good times. When you are making money, it’s easy to overlook some of the deeper issues that are lying beneath the surface just waiting for an excuse to move to the top of your company’s list of challenges and create havoc.
Paying attention, during good times and bad times, to [...]
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Competitive advantage is based not on doing what others already do well, but on doing what others cannot do well.
–John Kay
Most studies of competitive advantage begin more than 20 years after the leadership activity they want to measure. That’s like trying to measure the snow fall at the South Pole after the fact. It can’t [...]
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Do your employees know how they impact profit in your company? Do they know what activities they do every day will make your company money?
There is no better time than during a recession for a business owner to stop thinking short-term and start thinking long-term. You heard me. Yes I know you may be scrambling [...]
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I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s powerful book tribes and have come away with a number of takeaways and I’m going to go through five of those with you here.
I’d heard good things about this book from friends and business colleagues and it was definitely warranted.
Now you may be starting to whine saying “I don’t like [...]
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Usually the majority of us do not have jobs that offer us a whole lot of excitement during our day. We might start the morning with what flavor of coffee we want to have before beginning what can sometimes be a boring and routine day. Office work or a job in an assembly plant of [...]
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I remember opening the mail one day and seeing a jury summons notice. If I’d gotten three, I gotten a dozen and always figured out a way to get out of jury duty. Something about this time was different. I thought to myself, I think it’s time to do my civic duty.
I [...]
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