From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Being an Entrepreneur is like Dating: Put Yourself Out There!

July 20, 2006

Inspired by Rick Spence’s call for startup advice/anecdotes I sent him an email with this thought, “put yourself out there.” (There was a bit more to it, otherwise I would expect Rick to hit delete rather quickly.)
The gist of the idea is that entrepreneurs can’t be afraid of reaching out to people; even people they [...]

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Companies Need to Come Clean When There’s a Problem

July 19, 2006

As they say in A.A. – “admitting you have a problem is the first step.”
It should be the first step of a problem situation for any business, but of course it’s not. No one wants to admit they screwed up, that it was their fault. Maybe it’s human nature. Maybe it’s corporate culture. Maybe [...]

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Powering Through A Crisis: Stick With Simple Tasks

July 18, 2006

Quick, your e-commerce website just crashed and you’re losing customers by the second. (Note: this is just an example to illustrate a point, feel free to replace this crisis with any other you might experience!)
What do you do?
Panic.
Panic?
That doesn’t sound like great advice…
Well, it’s not. But you’re human, so you’ll panic. Hopefully you’ve got some [...]

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Get Organized and More Productive! No More Bloated To-Do Lists.

July 13, 2006

A couple of days ago I wrote a post about being more prepared and how you can accomplish that. The goal wasn’t to say, “be prepared for anything and everything,” because that’s just a big fat lie. But, there are ways of being more prepared than not.
First, we embraced failure and learned from it.
Now we’re [...]

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Embrace Failure. Learn From It And You Will Succeed.

July 12, 2006

Yesterday I wrote that you can be more prepared in business and life if you learn from your mistakes and failures. Many more successful people than myself will also tell you, “Failure is good. Embrace it and learn from it. Then you’ll succeed.” First let’s try and accept two facts:

Failure is inevitable. Even [...]

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