3 Magic Traits for Business Growth
In an attention getting paradox introduced by authors Zook and Allen, they explain the relationship between growth and complexity. In their words, “growth creates complexity and complexity is the silent…
Managers Need to Understand Their Sales Reps’ Cultural Values
Bottom Line: Employees who push innovative products have a tough job, but can be encouraged by managers who grasp their motivations to succeed. Seeing their innovative products fly off the…
Marketplace Status Quo – The Big Lie
There’s a big deceit looming over the global marketplace, perhaps the most prevalent and insidious bias in business. This big lie is that the status quo exists. Nothing stays…
8 Painful Vendor Mistakes IT Pros Make
If you’re looking for more guidance on how to evaluate vendors, consulting firm Temkin releases an annual Experience Rating of Tech Vendors each November. The company surveys 800 IT…
IoT Success: Sharing Data, Analytics Fuels Growth
A report from the MIT Sloan Management Review finds that companies that share data from their internet of things projects are better positioned to take advantage of what the…
ClubCorp CIO Sees Cloud As Hole In One For Golf
ClubCorp CIO Patrick Benson is finding that both infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service are important to migration. The two cloud technologies are also fundamental for future mobile applications. You’re a midsize…
6 Wise Investments for Your Small Marketing Budget
If you own a small business or startup, you know how tight a marketing budget can be. There is no doubt that every dollar makes a difference when it comes to…
The 6 Main Reasons Businesses Fail and How to Avoid Each
Success and failure are intimately connected. As we pursue success, we are also avoiding failure; and whenever we fail, we also elude success. This relationship is important and must not be ignored.…
6 Reasons I’m Grateful My Dad Made Me Get a Job Every Summer
As soon as I could drive, I was told to make some money. My parents always emphasized school as my first priority, but my father believed we also needed to…
6 Rules for Influencing How Customers Will Review Your Brand
TripAdvisor has long been a destination for finding cheap flights, but this summer, it unveiled its biggest redesign in seven years when it introduced user reviews of airlines. The reviews will contribute to…
5 Regrets of a Failed Entrepreneur
Ninety percent of start-ups fail, some for reasons which were completely avoidable, others because of a lack of confidence, preparation or understanding of what was needed to be successful. I…
The Keys Test: How to Determine If You Should Simplify Your New Business
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. Successful simplifiers always come up with a new key, or keys, to unlock and transform a market. These…
Want to Become More Disruptive With Your Startup? You Got 100 Days.
Companies struggle with deadlines for new product builds. It can take a long time to get everybody around the table agreed on a product — so much so that nobody…
What Is Business’ Role in the Migration and Refugee Crisis?
Economic vulnerability, climate change, violence and protracted conflict have displaced nearly 65.3 million people in the world. That’s equivalent to the population of France — Europe’s second largest country. So, it’s no…
5 Ways These YouTube Superstars Built Business Empires
The entrepreneur’s dream is to turn what he or she loves into something that will actually turn a profit. YouTube is home to more than a billion users, and some…
6 Reasons Bimodal IT Is Wrong For You
Bimodal IT is supposed to stabilize critical systems and bring innovation to others. But there are consequences to dividing the IT house — ones most companies don’t need. …
10 Troubling Habits of Chronically Unhappy People
Happiness comes in so many different forms that it can be hard to define. Unhappiness, on the other hand, is easy to identify; you know it when you see it,…
The Keys to Success Behind a Multi-Million-Dollar Construction Company
Any business — whether it’s washing windows or consulting — needs to take advantage of technology or risk losing out on precious customers to faster and more connected competition. But…
The Power And Importance of Quarterly Meetings
As we reach the end of the third quarter, it’s time for companies to re-focus, review their achievements to date against their annual business plan, and get the whole team…
Here’s Why You Really Need To Pay Attention To SEO
What do we know about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)? The initial Google algorithm developed by Larry Page Sergey Brin in 1995 decided which websites should rank highest in Google. It…