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Are You Measuring The Right Things?

This map from the 2008 presidential election tells a story, but it isn’t likely telling you the entire story. You see this is a map that shows the voting by counties, and while the representation is accurate, it doesn’t tell you a complete story because it doesn’t account for population. This map tells another story. […]
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The costs of inertia

There’s a theme here lately, I think… Its about change and inertia. I know exactly why I am thinking along these lines because I live in Washington, DC and anytime we have an election, we talk about change and inertia. Now with the change from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, that’s some serious change. One […]
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Are You Stuck In Neutral?

As we sit here, still looking at the puppy stages of a new year…one of the ideas that comes back to me over and over again is: “is your business stuck in neutral?” Or, “are you looking at things the same way that you have always looked at them?” Yesterday I had a conversation with […]
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Change Looks Like…

A new perspective A different frame for a problem Bringing in new perspectives Offering up new value Offering up a different price point Changing delivery method Changing deliver time Changing outcomes Changing measures of success  
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Death To The Paint By Number Job…

There was a lot of interesting things that came out of President Obama’s farewell address this week. One of the most interesting is when he talked about the shape of the changing economy and how it is impacting everyone. When you combine that with this concept that many traditionally Democratic voters voted for Donald Trump […]
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Are You Playing To Your Strengths?

We make a lot of decisions when we are in business, but one of the big failures for many of us is that we spend too much time trying to defend ourselves from almost everything or we try to have a certain level of proficiency in everything, no matter what. This is important because in […]
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