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10 Things To Look At When You Think About Generating More Revenue

SHOW ME THE MONEY! That’s the refrain of all businesses sooner or later. The fact is that you can’t have a business or non-profit without some type of revenue generation strategy. In fact, if you look to some of the tightening of the venture capital markets in Silicon Valley, much of the change in environment […]

What If You End Up Going Wrong?

Strategy has been a theme around here for the last few weeks and one thing about strategy is that you are never going to always be successful. Which always presents an issue for the organization that is dealing with a faltering, struggling strategy. You know: sunk costs! You know the old saw that says: “Don’t […]

3 Ways That You Can Look At Your Value

Value, as I wrote recently, can be a difficult conversation. The gist of the reason being that it is pretty easy to count, but it is really tough to measure something that can’t be easily counted. Which means that you are going to have to work very hard at identifying and telling the story of […]

Value is a difficult conversation

There is a really good reason for that… 1. Counting is easy: It is easy to lay out a series of tasks and check boxes. It is easy to follow a predetermined order. It is easy to follow the same course that has come before. 2. Measuring is hard: Understanding the distance between where you […]

10 Ways That Strategy Impacts Your Business

In working with businesses across a wide range of sectors, one challenge that we end up coming back to over and over again is whether or not the company has the right strategy in place to be successful in regards to some of the long term goals that they have set. Which got me to […]

What Are You Doing To Maximize The Success Of Your 5 Crucial Missions?

In business, we are all tasked with just a few really important missions and how well we deal with them determines our success or failure. The real, truly important missions we deal with are just 5, but their success can be the difference between long term success or failure. Here you go… How are you […]

Decisions Are Interdependent

In many ways, we all want to feel like we can make decisions that stand alone, on their own merit…that the decisions we make are going to be just that, one simple decision. The problem is that when you make a decision, that isn’t the end of it. All decisions are interdependent and that can […]