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Tag Archives: ideas
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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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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If you own a business and you are counting on that business for your future wealth and retirement income, you will undermine your future if you do not seek the most talented, most intelligent, most not-average people you can find to fill critical positions and provide you with the business support and advice you require. Continue reading
Any conversation about religion, politics, or divisive social issues between employer and employee can become a form of abuse due to the imbalance of power and the implied threat of job stability to the subordinate. If you want to maintain a creative and harmonious workplace, leave the proselytizing at home. Continue reading
Posted in communications, ethics, management and leadership
Tagged communication, ethics, ideas, leadership, management, relationships, trust
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Of all the companies that use the Internet for business intelligence, those who have a talent for finding the meaning and patterns behind the noise will benefit the most. Continue reading
Posted in communications, merchandising and marketing, strategy
Tagged business intelligence, content, decision-making, feedback, ideas, marketing, messaging, social media, viral
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Most of us spend our lives growing into an ability to face reality, only to find out that reality isn’t all its cracked up to be. After all, it can’t take you anywhere else but here, can it? Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneurship, general business, strategy
Tagged assumption, critical thinking, decision-making, games, ideas, lean manufacturing, strategy
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I invite you to ponder two thoughts over the weekend. I’d like you to think about the effects of fear, and the benefits of action. Continue reading
Posted in economics, general business, personal development
Tagged business proposition, cost analysis, economics, ideas, labor cost, manufacturing
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Seven reasons why someone may hate your ideas. Continue reading
