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Human Desires: Part 2

My last post was about the 5 basic human desires and I am going to take a few minutes over the next few days and weeks to expand on each of the desires and ways that you can use those desires to improve what your business does and, hopefully, help you achieve some of your […]

Human Desires

Earlier I posted about the 5 things that your operation needs to do to truly be a business, and that got me flipping through old notes and books looking for other obvious ways that people can easily increase their business or refocus it. That’s where human desires come in. Depending on what you read, there […]

The 5 Parts Of Every Business (Or What A Business Really Is)

The idea for this post came out of a mocking conversation I had over the Twitter yesterday and how my Twitter profile said I started a couple of businesses and done pretty well. Which is extremely vague, but to my own defense, I never really thought to take it that seriously. If you look today […]

How Can We Create Jobs?

Just a few minutes ago, I was reading this morning’s Washington Post and a column by Robert McCartney called ‘The $1 billion question: How can we create jobs?’: Mr. McCartney writes about one of the founders of the Carlyle Group, Bill Conway, and how he wants to give away half of his wealth before he […]

A Few Notes On Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

At the end of the year I usually post a list of all the books that I have read in the past year. Just to give you some background, I usually try to knock out one book a week. I don’t always hit the mark, but this year I am going to go well past […]

A Few Real World Examples of Fidelity In Business

Earlier I wrote a short post about called ‘convenience vs. fidelity’ In the post I talked about making the decision to make yourself or your product convenient or to make it with some kind of wow factor. Then I was reading a blog about Starbucks’ refill policy and that got me to thinking about fidelity […]

Convenience vs. Fidelity

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about leadership lately and how organizations, people, etc end up where they are. One of the most important questions you can ask yourself as you look to steer yourself or your organization to your goals and that’s whether or not you are going offer something that is convenient […]