If you were watching the Winter Olympics closely, you’ll have noticed that many of the medal winners are using special mental rituals to maximize their performance. Many of these same techniques can be used by executives and entrepreneurs to improve their...
Are you as productive as you could be? In today’s uber fast world, the ability to define and do a multitude of tasks quickly is more important than ever. Not just to drive our company forward, but also to make it home for dinner with our family or partner....
The central way Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg works can be summed up in his often repeated mandate to his staff: “Move fast and break things.” What Zuckerberg is talking about has … two dimensions: 1. That speed needs to be a key component of how his...
Right now every business is sending Christmas or holiday cards. I’d like to suggest you do something different. I call it the New Year’s Card. It’s really easy to do and it will make a major impact on your customers and prospective clients. All you...
Most CEO’s are well aware of the profit killers in their business: price wars, staff bloat, manufacturing cost blow outs and inefficient sales processes. But few address a more subtle but often more dangerous profit attacker. Complexity. Complexity erodes profit...
I recently wrote a book called Why People Fail. It examines the 16 biggest obstacles to success and how we can overcome them. Many readers asked me whether I had similar theories about why businesses fail. Of course, there are a myriad of reasons that cause corporate...
