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 to be entrepreneurs and some aren’t. Based on my experience of...
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 aspect of life. Here...
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...
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 good or bad year? Regardless, there...
I mentioned in my January newsletter that my 2014 goal to be a better listener. Since starting my own business nearly seven years ago, I realized that many of the “learning opportunities” (i.e. mistakes) I experienced were because I wasn’t really listening to my clients, prospects, partners and coaches as...
Being a quality guy for most of my career at Intel and Orbital Sciences means I'm familiar with a lot of the quality management lingo. The word lean in quality circles has to do with eliminating waste to improve efficiency and effectiveness. In that context, we have Lean Six Sigma...
The book, The Wide Lens written by Ron Adner, proposes a new perspective on innovation as a relates to products and services. One of the breakthrough concepts proposed is that businesses can no longer just focus on their internal execution of products and services and have to look at their...
“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.” ~ T.S. Eliot Like many of you I spend December reflecting on the past year. Our businesses make up a big...