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Tag Archives: discipline
What’s your Network IQ? If you’re an entrepreneur, then you know what it’s like to receive unsolicited advice. Your family, customers, friends, vendors, and the guy next to you in the grocery store line are all willing to offer you … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, general business, personal development
Tagged Advice, Advisers, assumption, business intelligence, discipline, ideas, management, Network IQ, planning, relationships, trust
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Most entrepreneurs run a very tight business, keeping the administrative costs as low as possible and devoting all their funds to the marketing and product development side of their business. This is the right thing to do. But administrative tasks … Continue reading
Posted in general business, systems management
Tagged best practice, discipline, management, organizational systems
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Are you experiencing the leadership challenge in your business now? One of the most constant things we must do to run a successful business is lead, and that’s really hard work. Leadership requires a lot of consistency and discipline. In … Continue reading
Posted in communications, hiring & people development, management and leadership, personal development
Tagged communication, discipline, leadership, personal development, professional development, psychology, relationships
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It takes a certain amount of ego to start a business, own a business, take a job as the president or CEO of a business – a healthy ego is a prerequisite to a lot of success stories. But what … Continue reading
After spending a week in the design studio of one of my clients, I am thinking a lot about creativity and intention. Most of my clients are designers – jewelry, interiors, software, food – all involve similar requirement to create … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, personal development
Tagged creativity, discipline, ideas, innovation
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You’d pretty much have to live in a burrow to have missed that Apple was suing Samsung, or that they won a billion-dollar judgment for their efforts (pending appeal, of course). I have a lot of reservations about our 18th … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, merchandising and marketing, strategy
Tagged apple, competitiveness, differentiation, discipline, google, innovation, merchandising, samsung
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If your business fitness approach is to stick your toe in the water here and there to see if anything works, you’re just delaying the inevitable. Treat your business regimen as if you are training to defend your life, and you won’t be outrun, outgunned, or outmaneuvered when challengers come to call. Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, general business, personal development
Tagged best practice, competitiveness, discipline, management, measurement, planning, strategy
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A depressed economy takes existing conditions and magnifies them. It’s like stop-action photography. The bad business decisions we make that would normally unfold over years, instead unravel in a year, a quarter, or even a month. This is how we explain some organizations in every industry thriving while their competitors contract and fail. Continue reading
Posted in economics, general business, management and leadership
Tagged advertising, codependence, discipline, economics, layoff, social media, strategy, supply chain
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