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Holiday Blowout!

Have you ever thought about the kind of business plan and strategy that leads a business to generate all of their profits in one month out of the year and have losses the rest of the year? If you have, how do you avoid that? If you haven’t, where do you start thinking about that […]

When you get there…

One challenge we all have to overcome is “what do we say when we get…" With the blank being: a meeting a job an opportunity The key is to think about what you are going to do when you get where you are going, sure. More, the key to answering the question is finding ways […]

Benchmarking yourself

Let me ask you a quick question: What benchmarks are you using to judge your progress? As we move towards the end of the year and the beginning of a new one, it is important to go back to the beginning, or at least close, and ask yourself what exactly success looks like. From that […]

Benchmarking yourself

Resolutions?

In about 2 weeks we will all start seeing and hearing people talk about the ways that they are going to make their resolutions stick in the new year… Ok, great! Here is the thing…the process of change and reinvention is constant. You don’t need a day or a landmark to define the jumping off […]

Planning A Sales Funnel

In continuing my thinking about planning for now and the future of your organizations… One challenge that I think needs a lot more thought and planning for is the sales process. Because the need for sales success is a constant in our society and if you aren’t planning for your most likely targets, you are […]

A new kind of artist

I love art: books, music, painting… And, I love artists: Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Michael Stipe, Picasso. Today, I want to propose a new class of artists….and they sometimes wear suits and ties and ride the subway…they are businesspeople like Seth Godin, Alan Weiss, and Peter Drucker. While we don’t look at business as an art, […]