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Pat Riley taught us something

I’m a fairly regular watcher of the NBA. I still remember the first season of the Miami Heat when they started out 0-17. And at the trade deadline this year, after the Heat were supposedly left for dead when LeBron James went back to Cleveland, Pat Riley pulled off a pretty big trade for one […]

Pat Riley taught us something

Which one is better?

What’s better? Security or opportunity? I’d say that at this point, the first is an illusion and the second is the only security that you might have.

Revenue Generation: Like Grabbing Cash From A Money Tree?

When you talk about revenue, you are often put in the position of making money grow on trees! Which isn’t actually true because in fact, most of changing and growing the revenue machinery of your organization is a process, just like any other process. Like any good process, there is just a series of patterns […]

Our challenges…

Sometimes we want to jump to the obvious challenge first. Or, we have determined that if we are having a certain challenge, we need to bring that one up for that audience…even though the big challenge is the one we should be talking about first. I think it is always helpful to take a step […]

Mistakes

Mistakes are the cost of learning. Mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes are opportunities to learn how not to do something. Mistakes are chances to better hone your ideas. Mistakes are your friend.

Why I Stand With The Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Since September 17th, a group of protesters have taken residence at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, just a block or so from the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street. From the beginning and into the first several weeks, the mainstream media basically ignored the protest. But once there were mass arrests and noise was […]