What I Learned from the Black Box I was working for a company just outside of Boston. I was living just outside of Laguna Beach. The job was a great fit. At 13.5 hours door-to-door when the weather … [Read more...]
Critical Skill 1: Strategic Deep Thinking
No More Faster, Faster We live in fast food culture, where now and yesterday seem to be the timing of every answer. “Faster, Faster,” was great when I was at the carnival as a child, but I’m not sure … [Read more...]
FIOTB–Tool 1: Content Development Tool
Because thinking outside of the box is unstructured, it can can lead to “swiss-cheese solutions”–answers that have holes in them–things that we just didn’t think of in our unstructured thinking. So I … [Read more...]
How to Build the Deeply Connected Network that Is Key to Any Strategy
The Magnetic Attraction of Values When we were writing the press release for the first SOBCon, I said, Every business is relationships, and relationships are everyone’s business. Our networks … [Read more...]
Intra-Linking as Promotion
Do you know Yaro Starak’s blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey? I follow it because he’s always testing things. I dropped by today looking for something on search engine optimization and found the most-like … [Read more...]
NFL Coaches, CEOs, and VCs Take a Lesson from Your Kids
We Learned How Business Works When We Were Five Years Old I was re-reading “The E-Myth Revisited” last night. It reminded me of a book I read in 1989, called, “The Game of Work.” Both got me … [Read more...]
SEO-OSE-SOE–When an Alternate Spelling Is Optimization
When I do a link search on MSN for my personal blog, I always get that starred question Were you looking for . . . ? The same thing happens on Google, Yahoo, and most search engines. I find it … [Read more...]
TWO Simple Keys to Success
I was a VP in an executive meeting at a publishing company. The people around the table had the most solid core competencies I’d ever seen in one room. We’d been working together for five months. Our … [Read more...]
Bookcraft 2.0 Why Read the Date Archives Not the Categories?
What’s Established vs. A Fresh Look I’m still sorting the pages I printed out when I read through Phil’s monthly archives. As I was sorting, I thought someone must have this question. Why not just … [Read more...]
Carnival of Entrepreneurship Is ON!
Whether you’re blogging for business or blogging for fun, inside a company or inside your house, you have a little–or a lot–of entrepreneurial spirit. You can’t be a blogger and not be an entrepreneur … [Read more...]
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