Plans Are Useless?!? But Planning is Everything!
How to plan for your business in the face of uncertainty, competitors, and everything else. Planning vs. the plan.
Psyching-Up to Ask Investors for Money
Finding the right person and asking them for money to fund your business can be daunting. First, you need to get your head straight! Here are some ideas…
20 Virtues that Propel Business Success
Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt. “What you learn after you think you know it all is what counts.” ~ John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach For those who give you reasons for why businesses fail… When I read a magazine article entitled, “10 Ways to Go Out of Business,” I…
Get a Life!
Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” ~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson When you proactively fill your time, you can prevent BS from filling it for you. A friend of mine was complaining that many otherwise great projects were going undone…
What to Do When Nothing is Working…
By the author of Business Black Belt, the book on mindful business management. Some days are better than others. Some days it seems that nothing works. Some would say that Mercury is in retrograde. (I don’t even know what that means!) What do you do when nothing is working? Many people would tell you to…