Posts filed as Business Strategy

Georges Doriot is known for being one of the first venture capitalists in America. He was also a Harvard Business School professor and part of his legacy is this chewy quote, certain to motivate any entrepreneur… “Someone, somewhere, is making

You may have missed the first two days of my tweeting meaty and super-tight takeaways from Donald Keough’s Ten Commandments for Business Failure. No worries, I got ya covered. Catch-up by reading and scrolling below. And feel free to play

Watch as Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, scoffs at Apple’s iPhone because of its $500 price tag. Ballmer says it’s too expensive, it’s not a good email device, and it’s not going to appeal to business customers. Instead, Ballmer believes the

While reading Bill Moggridge’s DESIGNING INTERACTIONS, I became aware of the “€œTen Things Google has Found to be True.”€ It’s Google’s corporate manifesto from the early 2000s and it’€™s a very worthwhile read. [Maybe you’ve already read it and I’™m

This Thanksgiving weekend finds me in Dallas with family and friends. It also finds me reading a few buisness books including the classic business management book from Peter Drucker … THE EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE. Lots of chewy money quotes to digest

According to Frederick Reicheld’s THE ULTIMATE QUESTION, there are bad profits and good profits which companies can earn from customers. Reicheld writes, “… bad profits are earned at the expense of customers, good profits are earned with customers’ enthusiastic cooperation.”

Bert Decker, communications coach, shares his takeaways from hearing Rick Warren, pastor extraordinaire, deliver several sessions at a recent conference. It’s a worthy read post. One of Bert’s takeaways is going to linger with me for a long time. He

During our breakout session on “Growing a Brand. Growing a Team.“ at the 2006 In-HOWse Designer Conference, we discussed how to spot “Likeables” and “Assholes” during the job interview process. We were working under the thinking that “Likeables” are friendly

Months ago I was asked to give a one-off presentation at the 2006 In-HOWse Designer Conference (being held this week) for session titled, “Growing a Brand. Growing a Team.” I didn’t struggle with the crux of the content but I

I bet you’ve never thought how the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (a.k.a. Roshambo) can be applied to business growth. Marty Neumeier has. And brilliantly at that. In ZAG, the book I’ve been pimping all week, Marty explains how growing