The worst thing that you can do in your work is to continue with business-as-usual when there are unseen forces acting on you. Whether you feel content working a job or continuing to work in a market that is obsolescing, the lack of feedback on a daily basis can build up into a cataclysmic event,Continue reading “The Feedback Advantage”
Tag Archives: Business Strategy
The Last Mover Advantage
First movers do have some advantages. Like an Oklahoma land rush they can stake their claim in a new market and hold a position that comes with being first. This kind of positioning in the mind of people new to a market means less work persuading buyers on what is the best in class.Continue reading “The Last Mover Advantage”
Indiscriminate Business
The illusion we have today in the marketplace is the buffet trap. We see everything that is available to us. This includes apps, freemium software, business ideas, low-cost labor and new growth hacking strategies. It’s all available and cheaper and more accessible than ever. But if we gorge with indiscriminate adoption, we underestimate the messContinue reading “Indiscriminate Business”
A Game Worth Playing
“What man needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling of some goal worthy of him.” ~ Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning “Consider that if man were to succeed in ridding the world of all disease, poverty, pestilence, famine, and war, what, then would be the purpose of his existence?”Continue reading “A Game Worth Playing”
Everything is an Experiment
Here’s the simple strategy for keeping you from getting washed away in the tides of innovation all around you: Observe what’s happening around you in your world and see what people are buying. Come up with 3 ideas that get people to buy. Build a solution and sell it to one customer. Observe theirContinue reading “Everything is an Experiment”
Would You Rather Be Rich or Right?
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. ~ David Ogilvy It’s extremely difficult to be wanted in a world of ridiculous options. You can insist on your idea and work hard on creativity. That may be fulfilling because you feel right regardlessContinue reading “Would You Rather Be Rich or Right?”
One Problem Two Solutions
If you are a business owner or manager, you have the ongoing challenge of solving daily problems with your team. Inevitably, people will bring problems to you. And how you handle those requests becomes a signal to the people on your team of what to expect. What you communicate will be one of two items: IContinue reading “One Problem Two Solutions”
Business Owners Rock
I posted some ideas on how to work with business owners over at the Huffington Post as an author there. Not everyone is an entrepreneur. A person’s fear and personality largely hold back most people from making the decisions and taking the actions necessary to make an idea happen. Personally, I have found that business ownersContinue reading “Business Owners Rock”