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Occupy Wall Street and Origination

Please read this article, please watch this video, then please tell me what you feel, think, observe.  Are there similarities?  Are you seeing a trend?  You tell me.         Article: Take Wall Street Please  
Date: 10 Feb 2012 | 0 Comment | 


The Book, The Brand, The Business | Working On It™

Please don’t misunderstand me; I am not negative about small business. To the contrary.  I have worked with more small businesses over the past fifty years of my life than anyone I know.  Tens of thousands of them.  My problem is that I am simply shocked again and again at how little most small business owners seem to understand what it truly takes to invent, design, build, grow and maintain...
Date: 07 Feb 2012 | 3 Comments | 


6 Fundamental Truths About Your Business

There is a fundamental belief that there is no absolute truth about business.  But there is. The first absolute truth about business is that they are all broken.  They don’t work perfectly.  Nor do you.  That is absolutely true, but only the first of the absolutes. The second absolute truth is that all broken businesses can be improved.  Not absolutely, no.  But improved to perform better...
Date: 17 Jan 2012 | 1 Comment | 


A Visit To The Dreaming Room

People have asked me over the years how to know when a business is worth pursuing.  How to know whether or not you are wasting your time. I don’t know why this is such a difficult question for people to answer. It is obvious to me that if you are passionate about your company, deeply passionate about it, like a love affair, then it’s worth pursuing whether you’ve got it down or not. My...
Date: 13 Jan 2012 | 0 Comment | 


About Women Entrepreneurs

There is something so fundamental about women, so essential.  That is why entrepreneurship is a calling so clearly feminine, and yet so masculine, which explains why there are so many more companies founded by women, and yet so very few of them grow beyond a million in revenue, while men, everywhere, no matter in what industry, grow, grow, grow. Let me explain it to you. Women are not interested...
Date: 10 Jan 2012 | 2 Comments | 


There Are So Many Ways to Avoid the Obvious | Working ON the Business

And what about you?  How many ways do YOU find to avoid the obvious?  The obvious being that your business is your product, your only product, the product every single entrepreneur has invented to distinguish himself or herself in the world. Like Starbucks is.  Or McDonald’s.  Or Apple.  Or Walmart. I’ve got Howard Schultz’ book, ONWARD, on my desk, and have been dipping into it on and off. ...
Date: 06 Jan 2012 | 2 Comments | 


The Year is New Once Again | New Year’s Resolutions

Yes, the year is new once again, and our hearts must follow this tradition if we are ever to understand what it means to create anew, and why creating is so important to each and every one of us. I have written so many of these messages for so many years at this time, that when it was suggested that I give it a go again, I poised before saying yes, as all I could hear was my same old voice, saying...
Date: 03 Jan 2012 | 2 Comments | 


A Serious Man – Keeping Promises

I’m fortunate in that I have an extraordinary assistant who reminds me every chance she can get that it’s time for me to write.  If she didn’t remind me, I would forget.  There is usually so much going on in my mind and therefore in my life – just like you I imagine – that keeping on point is rarely the foremost thing in my mind. My wife, Luz Delia, often comes to me to ask if I have...
Date: 30 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment |