If idea generation is an addiction then killing ideas is the cure. After spending countless hours developing and polishing ideas, we tend to become attached to those same ideas (whether they are good or bad). The result can be a great deal of wasted...
Topics: brainstorming, creativity, ideas, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Productivity

As a small business owner, how’d you like to get a billion dollar lesson for the price of a book? Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui provide this gift in their new book, Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business...
Topics: Management

If you were in an accident or got sick, what would happen to your business?  Could your business continue operating for several weeks or months without your day to day attention?  Could your spouse or a family member or a trusted employee step up and...
Topics: Innovation, Strategy

“Marketing is not only much broader than selling; it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business.” – Peter DruckerOver the past several posts I’ve been talking about the role of search, conversation, and media in your.

The Olympics in China, surging wealth in oil nations, a strong European Union — all of these have U.S. entrepreneurs thinking: Mmmmmmmm, so how can I get a piece of that? How can I start going global? The current downturn in the U.S. has made...
Topics: Global business, global sales and marketing, going global, international expansion