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When The Earth Reminds You That It’s Here

That’s what has been happening over the past several years, but even more decisively over the past year, as Greece, Spain, Italy, the U.K., Ireland, yes, even France and Germany, tell you that something seriously deficient in the thinking class has appeared on the face of the earth, whole hog plus the postage. Deficient?  Yes, absolutely deficient.  Which means a big hole growing even bigger,...
Date: 29 Feb 2012 | 1 Comment | 


A Thought About a Thought to Make a Point

One of the ongoing arguments that have been made for the past 33 years to my E-Myth message is that systems deaden the imagination.  That systems kill entrepreneurial creativity.  That systems -- a script, a piece of software, whatever -- kill the innovation that is so critical to the development of an extraordinary company. Of course, this argument is always made by someone who either has never...
Date: 27 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 | 


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 | 3 Comments | 


The Giant Sucking Sound of the Word, Leadership

I was asked this morning to perhaps speak at a global conference for leadership at the end of 2012 by a very interesting guy. He made it sound so compelling that I went to the website he linked me to, to watch the video on it of 2011’s Global Conference, and naturally was immediately engaged by a most electrifying panoply of sounds and words and music and passion, both of the speakers, and of the audience,...
Date: 23 Dec 2011 | 0 Comment | 


There Isn’t Enough Time to Wait

No, there isn’t.  Yet, why is it that despite the obvious most of us would choose to wait before we take action?  Before we move in a new direction?  Before we deepen our understanding of what it means to be who we are? No, there isn’t enough time to wait. There is only the obvious.  That waiting is not the absence of choice, but the choice preferred by most of us, as we live on the edge...
Date: 23 Nov 2011 | 0 Comment | 


To All The Folks At BizTech

      I don’t know what being at the Hyatt Regency meant to you all. That’s the problem I have always had with events like these. Lots of people, lots of talk, lots of hopes and talk, and people. But, what then? Where are you all now? Are you in a different place than you were when you arrived at the BizTech Conference? Is your business any better after...
Date: 09 Nov 2011 | 0 Comment | 


On the Essence of Entrepreneurship

The New Oxford American Dictionary tells us that the definition of the word essence is: the intrinsic nature or indispensible quality of something, esp. something abstract, that determines its character. So, then, what is the essence of entrepreneurship? Well, I would suggest, at the risk of baiting the bear, that you read Neil Senturia’s screed on the good Donald Trump to truly get a taste...
Date: 18 Oct 2011 | 1 Comment |