Breaking Through Data Overwhelm (3 Easy Steps)
Over the past few weeks, I have had the good fortune to speak to many executives and entrepreneurs about how the “Humans” in their companies grapple with data and information technology to improve...
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Why Climb Our Business Everests?
“Because it’s there. Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man’s desire to...
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The Young or Old Michael Jordan, Which is Your Business?
For so many very important reasons - pursuing capital to grow, positioning a business for a sale, recruiting new executive talent - the vast majority of business owners seek to have their companies...
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Opportunities in Virtual Reality [Webinar Invitation]
Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest market sectors in the world today, growing from a $90 million business in 2014, to $4.1 billion this year, and then more than doubling to $8.5 billion by 2018...
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Why - once we have met our basic needs for food, warmth, and safety - do we work? There are the usual, default answers.For Status. Power. In response to a "fight or flight" instinct, hardwired deep in...
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Business Lessons from Bolt, Phelps, et al.
An amazing 3.5 billion people - half the globe - are watching some or part of the Rio Olympics. Because it is great entertainment.And because, perhaps more than at any other event, nowhere is on...
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Learning from the Business High-Flyers
Earlier this month, I moderated a webinar panel focused on technology and entrepreneurial opportunities in Virtual Reality, a market sector growing at over 100% per year, and transforming industries as...
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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two
Last week, I wrote about how any business - no matter how "Old School" - can benefit via emulating the strategies of "High Flying" companies in industries like virtual reality, wearables, 3D printing,...
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The Most Important Time of Year Just Started...
[Click Here to register for my Friday Webinar on the “7 Keys to Business Plan Success”]Happy September! For many of us, this week is a turning of the page - from the slower, vacation and family-focused...
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Opportunities in Smart Wearables [Webinar Invitation]
CCS Insights forecasts that 411 million smart wearable devices, worth a staggering $34 billion, will be sold in 2020 (up from 274 million this year).These wearables include eyewear (97 million...
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Business Growth: If They Can Do It, We Can Too
Above all else, business leaders are tasked with solving the fundamental challenge of growth.Growth in the form of increased revenues and profits, of more and better assets, and of more organizational...
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Arnie and Vin: May We See the Likes of Them Again
The passing this week of Arnold Palmer at 87, and the retirement from broadcasting of Vin Scully at 88, is a moment to reflect on the time, world, and value system these men represented, and on the...
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Innovation Capacity: Do You Have It in Your Business?
The most prized, but often overlooked asset of any organization is its capacity to change and innovate.This can be measured by the premium investors will pay to buy into the business.Slow moving and...
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Business Innovation: What it is and What it is Not
Last week, I wrote about how and why the most prized, but often overlooked asset of any organization is its capacity to change and innovate. But as I wrote in that post, innovation can be a scary and...
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Trump & Hillary Debate -- But Your Win
“The chief business of the American people is business.” - Calvin Coolidge, 1925“I went back to Ohio / But my city was gone”...
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Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence [Webinar Invitation]
[To register for the webinar, Click Here]The artificial intelligence (AI) market is projected to grow extremely rapidly - from approximately $800 million this year over $5 Billion by 2020, a...
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Innovation Through Conversation
Last week, I met for dinner with a longtime client as they traveled through Los Angeles on a stop-over on their way back to Europe.It was both by design and natural inclination of all involved, a...
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Would You Pass a Business Physical?
Positive business change starts with a full and complete understanding of what the bottlenecks to positive change are and what can/must be done to remove them. This may seem obvious, but I am...
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The Election: With Change Comes Opportunity
Last week, I wrote about the Business Physical and of the importance of evaluating a business’ “red,” “yellow,” and “green” areas and proceeding, changing, and innovating accordingly.As I wrote that...
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Use the Opportunity Acid Test to Grow Your Business
We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. - President Kennedy’s “Moon Speech” September 12, 1962A fundamental...
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