Answer These Three Key Questions to Successfully Reinvent Your Business Model
Customer Discovery is the foundation for Customer Development which forms the foundation for your successful and scalable business. If you haven’t gone through these processes recently, then there is a high probability your assumptions are wrong because change is constant.
Are You Created To Be An Entrepreneur?
People will argue about nature or nurture when it comes to being an entrepreneur. I'm more concerned if someone has the right mix of motivation, skills and experience to be successful. My perspective is that some people are meant...
Three Essential MVPs for Lean Startups
I love March Madness. Unfortunately, none of my favorite teams made it to the Final Four but every team that did make it has proven themselves in the heat of battle. In business as in basketball, you need to have MVPs who come through during clutch times. What are the...
You Need a Business Model First
By Donovan Hardenbrook You see, business plans are full of untested assumptions. Assumptions about the market, your product, your customer, employees, and how you will make money. Starting your business based on untested assumptions will cost you a lot of time and...
It’s Time to Lean into ‘Lean’
W. Edwards Deming is widely recognized as the father of the quality movement. Since the 1950’s, Mr. Deming has been highly revered in Japan. The principles Mr. Deming espoused were enthusiastically embraced by Toyota for manufacturing, supply chain and new product...
Ten Tips for Managing Your Family’s Health and Wellbeing
by Shirley A. Weis Happy New Year! It is time to update your company's business plan and time to review your plans for managing your family's health and wellbeing. You are the CEO of your family and can apply your management expertise and business techniques to this...
Important Lessons I Learned Last Year
Like many of you I took the holidays to reflect on the past year and set goals for the upcoming year. For me there were many valuable lessons learned that will help me be a better person and wiser in life and business. I thought they may also be of value to you also. So here are the best lessons I learned last year.
Know Your Why: Build Relationships Based On Trust
Guest blog by Cristi McMurdie “I was driving the bus backwards and making people enter the bus through the rear emergency exit! Once I discovered my WHY, I became aware that my WHY has and does drive how I think, feel, and make decisions. I immediately made better...
Your 5 Whys for the New Year
by Donovan Ray Hardenbrook It's that time of the year again to reflect on the last year and plan for the next. As John Maxwell, one of my favorite mentors, is known to say "Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything." So was this year a...
5 Keys to Improving Strategy and Execution
My Observations on What Works Is strategy more important than execution? In a recent LinkedIn group discussion there were good arguments from both camps plus those who thought both were equally important. The arguments for strategy being more important make the case...