Due to the ongoing attempt to move all my technology into the cloud and integrate it fully with my various social media activities, I have been quite stressed over the last couple of weeks. This is happening at the same time as work proceeds on getting my soon to...

Ernesto Sirollo is an amazing man. For decades he has roamed the world helping budding entrepreneurs find the resources they need to launch successful businesses. Mostly he operates in remote locations working with local people who never thought of themselves as entrepreneurs. He helps rural farmers in Africa improve...

Last missive, Open or Closed, accidentally used Election Day in the United States as a lead in to what I really wanted to write about: the impact of doubt versus certainly. If you haven't read it or don't remember it, go back and read Open or Closed before reading further. Here...

It happens to be Election Day in the United States the day this goes out. I would be remiss in my civic duty if I therefore didn't start by reminding you that your vote does count. And...if you don't vote, you don't get to complain about what happens. Saying...

Josh Billings once said, "it ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." These days political discourse, media, the internet, and millions of private conversations fall into the last part of that quote. People are acting on things...

Some time ago, in Find Your Words, I talked about the value of distilling your business down to three words. Just doing the exercise of finding three words to express who you are, what you do, and how you do it will lead to deep discussion and insight about your business....

There we all were, in our own kind of private space, standing around squashed between the pool tables being blasted by ridiculously loud music in a room at the end of a huge bar with the rest of the place mostly populated by 20 somethings dressed way down. A...

We all have habits. Habits make many things easier. We manage to drive home from the office without much thought, automatically turning here and there as required. You have a favorite area or even seat in an auditorium that you automatically aim for upon entering. Watching a good bartender make...