Courage in Business: How Companies Can Get Their Courage Back
I’m lucky. I have a troop of buddies from my New York City days that, thanks to technology, remain the closest of friends today. I’ll admit that the way we operate, there’s a lot of text chains, a lot of ribbing and a lot of laughs. My buddies and I used to text this one […]
Is Fear Running Your Business? Good!
Strengths. Weaknesses. Opportunities. Threats. (SWOT) For over 6 decades, SWOT has been the go-to standard most businesses have utilized for annual planning. But with all due respect to SWOT creator Albert Humphrey, every time I now use SWOT to assess what is and isn’t working in my business, I found that my “weaknesses” also ended […]
Creativity When We Need It Most
Captain Obvious walked into a bar and said the understatement of our short decade: “Thanks to COVID-19, the world as we knew it has forever changed.” Usually, when I’m soap-boxing about change, I’m on the record stating you don’t get a vote: change happens whether you like it or not. Either you’re driving that change […]