San Francisco vs. Austin
I just spent a week in San Francisco California. I love the place. The climate is near perfect. There is abundant opportunity, especially if you …
Success: One Step at a Time
The key to success in business is often the little stuff. In my experience, it is most often the result of doing a lot of …
To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
My current (tentative) hypothesis about Twitter is that it is a worthwhile engagement given the following conditions: 1) You are a member of a ‘niche’ …
For Entrepreneurs, “Why” Always Comes Before “What”
Let’s build a FaceBook application” “We need an iPhone App.” “We are hiring a new intern to manage our Twitter feed.” Do these declarative statements …
10 Seconds and Your Business is Gone
Would you keep live hand grenades in your desk drawer? Not unless you are Blackwater Intenational. That being the case, why do so many companies …
Will you be a Whale or an Eskimo?
Eskimos depend on killing one or two whales to survive for a whole year. They risk everything on being successful in this task. Whales on …
Find Your Childlike Passion
As a child, everything is new. Everything tends to grab your attention, but some things stand out and grab yourimagination. For me, one of those …
10 Reasons Pen and Paper Beats Email
As I have stated any number of times in this blog and in others, Communication is very often the single biggest obstacle in business. Whether …
Case Study: Communication Protocols Are Important
A multinational team in the United States: When a semiconductor company found a problem on one of their projects, a mid-level engineer immediately sent an …
Case Study 3: The Bottleneck
An American company outsourced a team to China:After training 15 Chinese workers how to do their tasks, the American team had most of its members …
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