Growth, as a strategy, is flawed. Draw a control volume around the planet and accelerate the growth engines: the natural conclusion – we run out of natural resources. Not if, when. Anything with a finite end condition is finite. That’s a rule. Because the world has finite resources, growth is......
Supply and demand have been joined at the hip since the beginning. When demand is high, the deck is shuffled so supply seems low. The fabricated scarcity drives up prices and shareholders are happy. When demand is low, the competition pushes each other on price. The abundance creates a commodity,......
Podcasts are short bursts of learning curated to please your ear. And with training budgets slashed, podcasts can be a wonderful and cost effective (free) way to learn. The only way to battle uncertainty is to increase diversity. Bringing together people with diverse experiences lets us see things from multiple......
Agree or not, companies think they have to grow to survive. (I don’t believe it.) For companies of all sizes and shapes, growth is the single most important forcing function. Is has tidal wave power, and whether you’re a surfer, sailor or power-boater, it’s important to respect it. More than......
Why are you holding back? Why aren’t you giving your best? Why are you blocking yourself? An open, honest disagreement can be a positive learning experience for both. If your intensions are good, everything works out well. I’m not sure why, but when your pockets are full of good intensions,......
The biggest blocker of company growth is your successful business model. And the more significant it’s historical success, the more it blocks. Novelty meaningful to the customer is the life force of company growth. The easiest novelty to understand is novelty of product function. In a no-to-yes way, the old......
Companies don’t need more ideas, they need ideas that are more meaningful. Companies have plenty ideas because they measure and track the number of new ideas generated. Enter your idea on the company’s open innovation web portal, and you’re done. Let the record show that a new idea was added......
Every idea that’s worth its salt will be rejected out of hand. That’s just how it is. You can get angry because you didn’t get the support you think you deserve or you can accept the fact that their negative reaction is about them. The first way you shut down......
Today marks six years of blog posts published every Wednesday evening. 300 weeks in a row and I haven’t skipped, forgot, or repeated. All written without an editor, though you knew that by the typos and grammar stumbles. It’s a challenge to write every week, but it’s worth it. Writing......
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