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Taking Exponential Business Leaps Forward
“Work on Your Business, Not In It”This popular, and somewhat cliched refrain, has for many years been suggested as a managerial and entrepreneurial best practice, and as "the...
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In Modern Business, Authenticity Trumps All
Today, almost all businesses interact with and relate to their perspective and existing clients through multiple channels: in-person, on the phone, over e-mail and increasingly text, via social media...
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When Buying (Not Starting) a Business is the Right Strategic Choice
Wal-Mart.McDonalds. Starbucks. What do they have in common? Well, for one, they are businesses that were not started and grown from scratch by their original founders.Rather, they were all started by...
View ArticleGetting to the Right Strategy in 15 Minutes or Less
I regularly engage with entrepreneurs and executives to help them determine the right long-term strategic plans and goals to pursue, toward the end of maximizing their businesses’ valuations and their...
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Virtue: The Hidden Secret of Great Companies
In his classic tome, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon famously theorized why the Romans, who ruled the Ancient World for close to 1,000 years, fell to such a...
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Strategic Excitement: A Key to Effortless Business Success
[Click Here to register for my Thursday Webinar: The Seven Keys to Business Plan Success]Probably the most important question to ask when developing a business or strategic plan is who should be...
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Walking the Talk of Business Growth
Innovative. Nimble. High energy. Opportunity - focused.Stuck. Ponderous. Tired. “Hanging in there” - focused.Which set of the above best describes your business? Which would your employees use to...
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The Best Place to Invest? Other People's Businesses.
An endearing, but dangerous quality of entrepreneurs and small business owners is their propensity to go all-in -- not only pouring all of their lives, hearts and souls into their business, but all of...
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The Spirit of America
On this great day when we celebrate America, its freedoms and way of life, please enjoy (and as you are moved share with the hashtag #SpiritofAmerica) this list of thirty - five of why this is the...
View ArticleWhy Business Intelligence is So Hard [And What to do About It]
Over the past few weeks, I have written about the amazing growth and financial progress of Business Intelligence (BI) companies like Domo, Birst, and Looker and how their rise to prominence and value...
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The Best Entrepreneurs are Investors, and Vice Versa
The smartest, most creative, and effective business men and women more often than not can be best described as "Investor – Entrepreneurs,” evaluating and pursuing opportunities through the...
View ArticleThe Power of Advisors
A great best practice for all companies of ambition is to establish and hold regular meetings of a well-qualified and experienced Board of Strategic Advisors.Let’s set aside for now some of the...
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Breaking Through The Business Malarkey
An ongoing entrepreneurial and executive challenge is blocking out all distractions and focusing and executing upon what is important above all else - pursuing opportunities of high value and potential...
View ArticleBreaking Through Data Overwhelm (3 Easy Steps)
Over the past few weeks, I have had the good fortune to speak to many executives and entrepreneurs about how the “Humans” in their companies grapple with data and information technology to improve...
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Why Climb Our Business Everests?
“Because it’s there. Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man’s desire to...
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The Young or Old Michael Jordan, Which is Your Business?
For so many very important reasons - pursuing capital to grow, positioning a business for a sale, recruiting new executive talent - the vast majority of business owners seek to have their companies...
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Opportunities in Virtual Reality [Webinar Invitation]
Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest market sectors in the world today, growing from a $90 million business in 2014, to $4.1 billion this year, and then more than doubling to $8.5 billion by 2018...
View ArticleWhy Do We Work?
Why - once we have met our basic needs for food, warmth, and safety - do we work? There are the usual, default answers.For Status. Power. In response to a "fight or flight" instinct, hardwired deep in...
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Business Lessons from Bolt, Phelps, et al.
An amazing 3.5 billion people - half the globe - are watching some or part of the Rio Olympics. Because it is great entertainment.And because, perhaps more than at any other event, nowhere is on...
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Learning from the Business High-Flyers
Earlier this month, I moderated a webinar panel focused on technology and entrepreneurial opportunities in Virtual Reality, a market sector growing at over 100% per year, and transforming industries as...
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