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I have done many types of deals over the years. I have sold services, created venture opportunities for myself and clients, partnered, started businesses, launched new products and have helped people along the way who needed a little more vision or strategy. I can see deals that others can'
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Have you ever assumed something about someone and been surprised? Assumptions can bite you in the butt pretty fast if you are not careful. I like to be surprised all the time. And I don't like to make assumptions. One thing I do assume is that any person
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How do you know the price of something? Ultimately, it's an agreement between the seller and buyer. You don't have to pay the price. You could go elsewhere and get what you want cheaper. Or you could forego what you want if it's not
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I see people every day in business lost on what they should or can do. The old rules where you were a good boy or girl and advanced up a ladder doesn't play out much today. You can't simply rest on your laurels and hope someone
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I saw this recent statistic to date for number of apps for my Apple devices at 2.2 million and 2.8 million for Google Play! It blows my mind how much technology is available for every average person out there with a thought and a click. We got here
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We had this age of efficiency and continuous improvement for a long time. When the Japanese were destroying us in the auto industry with better quality cars we buckled down and hyper focused on quality. It worked. ISO standards, Deming Cycles and Six Sigma drove quality to new standards, and
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There are all these productivity systems out there, and I find this one thing is often underestimated. Speed. We don't live in a world where what comes in is controlled and steady. If you are like the typical knowledge worker, it is absolute chaos on a given business
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It's hard living in an imperfect world, especially with people that might expect perfectionism. Perfectionism is not realistic. There are too many variables, players on the field and unrealistic expectations to muddy the waters of doing good business. But, being in the connected human economy affords us the
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Any fool can muster up motivation and go for it. You may finally want to act on an idea or make your business work more efficiently in a moment of inspiration. However, acting simply on emotion and motivation without thinking through options, strategies and ideas can get costly and wasteful.
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I don't find games very engaging without keeping score. My kids are the same way. Once we inject some kind of scoring, it becomes much more fun, and the focus and intensity go up right away. It's natural. We've had decades of socializing trying
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It's Friday and most of the world is checking out. These days, with the connected economy, it's not much of a work day. But it's a great ritual every week to line up your next week. So, here's a little strategy you
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My clients and friends know that I beat that mantra, "Most things don't matter." One area that this particularly applies to is vanity metrics. These are the stats, conversions or data that simply do not matter or are too cluttered to manage towards the one thing