Better Business Building

Most mission statements are completely useless. Complete with homages to all cogs in the wheel of commerce and insider industry jargon that most people cannot pronounce, much less understand, they make little sense and add nothing of value to the organization.

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Carl Schramm is a man on a mission. 
As head of the charitable Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, he has partnered with the Walt Disney Company to produce Hot Shot Business, an online game of entrepreneurship, where players can start all kinds of different businesses.  It’s an educational "SIM" game in which players face many of […]

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If you see your customer’s role solely as the purchaser of your stuff, you are operating from a paradigm that is shifting beneath you.  The days of designing one’s product in a void, and cramming it down the throats of the unsuspecting public are over.
It’s always paid to understand your customer better than your competition.  […]

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On Saturday, we lost one of the most innovative thinkers of the modern business era.  Peter Drucker’s career as a business educator and theorist spanned 75 years. He wrote 35 books, 15 on mangement, 16 on society, economics and policy, 2 novels, and a collection of autobiographical essays.
To give you an idea as to the […]

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"…if you always have to think outside the box, maybe it’s the box that needs fixing."  (Malcolm Gladwell) [source article]
John Moore over at Brand Autopsy has blogged about the upcoming book Get Back In The Box by Douglass Rushkoff.  The subtitle to the book is "Innovation from the inside out."

I can’t wait to read the […]

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You find yourself in your office at 11pm on a Friday night, desperately
trying to locate a customer’s file, so you can type up an invoice,
because you need to get paid for the work you did for them, because you
don’t want to go to jail for bouncing payroll checks.
Seems like
a simple lack of organization, doesn’t it? […]

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