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In control? What are your numbers?

photo by sean rogers1 You have to love the clarity and power of numbers. Now that school’s started up again, homework is ramping up as well and my wife and I had a great ‘tutoring’ session with my daughter on her math homework.  My daughter was struggling with one of the concepts and wanted to […]

Business and Philosophy – what’s your primary aim?

  photo by euart Sometimes you need to mix in a little philosophy with your business… I’m re-reading the classic business book – The EMyth Revisited by Michael Gerber (prepping for a workshop I’m doing next week) and I was inspired by some philosophy in a chapter that I hadn’t thought about in a while. […]

Another look at Drive – cool presentation!

A few weeks ago I wrote about Daniel Pink’s new book Drive, which is all about the science behind what motivates people and how the business world (and the educational world) aren’t keeping up with that science and using motivational techniques that really don’t work very well anymore. Well I stumbled across the perfect primer […]

Do you have the Right People on the Bus?

  photo by Jerry A lot of thought over the years has gone into what makes a business great. In the business classic “Good to Great” by Jim Collins, 5 years of painstaking research led to a lot of interesting conclusions about what separated great companies from good companies (and all the rest). Some of […]

An updated look at Social Media NOW!

  photo by *yasuhiro The internet continually offers up all sorts of cool things – some of them are just entertaining (like the picture above) but a lot of them are world class educational resources, tools and ideas that most of us wouldn’t have seen 10 or even 5 years ago. If you’d like to […]

What can Bubble Net Feeding teach you?

You can learn some pretty cool things on vacation sometimes.  It’s may be hard to tell, but the picture above is a pod of humpback whales engaged in Bubble Net Feeding (here’s a bigger view). What is Bubble Net Feeding and how does it apply to business?  Read on and find out!