There are big business tactics small businesses will never be able to use. That’s not true for one of the most powerful. Small businesses tend to let themselves be overwhelmed by the urgent, failing to anticipate, plan, and prepare for the inevitable changes they will face if they survive and succeed.
Management & Leadership Articles
Are you waiting for trouble?
A business satisfied with its success that stops trying to improve screams “We’re patiently waiting to be overtaken.” and signals the competition to attack. Why would any business do that? Sadly, that’s what most do. When times are good, a business has the time, money, and resources to work on areas of weakness and look for ways to maintain its dominance. That’s when proactive changes should be made, not when times are tough and you have no choice. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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The optimist, the pessimist, and the engineer
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If an optimist sees a glass half full…
In business, most choices are clouded in grey while decisions are often reinforced by perspective. Don’t let your perspective obscure others and become your jail. Always be open to different ways of thinking.
Businesses don’t fail, leaders do
Wordcount: 814 Time to read: 4 minutes On New Year’s Day, 2021, CNN Senior Political Analyst John Avlon began a...
In Defense of Disruption
Wordcount: 810 Time to read: 4 minutes Over the years, I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to watch too many large...
What next? What now?
Three good bets with a little bit of wonkiness thrown in. Wordcount: 622 Time to read: 3 minutes This July 2020 issue...
The Big P
Purpose, not Pandemic Wordcount: 685 Time to read: 3½ minutesPlaceholder “Can a business have a mind, a sub-conscious,...
The Pandemic Induced Economic Coma
If anybody has too much time these days, they’re just not paying attention.
Change is a state of mind
Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. Billy Cox...
You get to pick two
I want what I want when I want it Wordcount: 538 Time to read: 3½ minutes Last month, I wrote this BDF issue would be...
Symptoms Masquerading as Issues
Symptoms masquerading as issues are one of the pitfalls of success.
The problem with being at the top of your game
“The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, … A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and...