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Category Archives: Strategy/Planning
Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team
Many small businesses operate with only a bookkeeper and CPA to manage the finances. The owner or GM fills in, or at least think that they fill in, for all of the duties of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As … Continue reading
Podcast – “Price is only an issue in the absence of value”
Learn where value really comes from and how to leverage total value.
“Price is only an issue in the absence of value”
At a recent business meeting, Stephen Giulietti (VP Wealth Management at Smith Barney, Boston), dropped this business aphorism in the midst of a story, “Price is only an issue in the absence of value.” This pithy little sentence reminded me … Continue reading
Podcast – Hiding Innovations from Customers
“Push here to lock end” – are you hiding innovations from customers?
Hiding Innovations from Customers
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I learned something quite startling. The age-old problem of rolls of aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and other rolled goods jumping out of the box when you are dispensing them was actually solved years ago by a … Continue reading
Podcast – Why and How to Develop a Business Plan for an Ongoing Firm
Why you need a business plan and how to develop one that leads to action not the dust bin.
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Posted in Podcasts, Strategy/Planning
Tagged actionable, business plan, ceo, owner, Podcasts, strategic plan, strategies, tasks, team
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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”
In today’s New York Times Warren Buffett writes about why he is buying American equities. He includes the following epigram: “A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” Here … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, Strategy/Planning
Tagged buy, fear, greed, Warren Buffett
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Book Review: Outside Innovation by Patricia Seybold
May 5th, 2008 The transformation of “customer driven”, “customer-centered”, “customer-defined” from just empty buzzwords in the latest management books to central values, key strategic skills is continuing. Patricia Seybold’s 2006 book Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company’s … Continue reading
Getting the Right Things Done – the manager’s focus
Peter Drucker wrote a charming little book in 1967, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting Things Done. I have now read it numerous times and each revisit rewards me. Just this morning I was speaking with a manager … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Strategy/Planning
Tagged Drucker, future, opportunities, past, problem solving, problems, results, right things, Strategy/Planning, Yesterday
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Customer-Centered Business – Peter Drucker and Web Marketing
Drucker Recently I have been returning to Peter Drucker‘s work, specifically The Practice of Management (originally published in 1954, the current edition is HarperBusiness, 1993). On page 50, Drucker says the following: “What is our business is not determined by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Jarboe, market research, Marketing/Sales, Peter Drucker, seo, Southwest, web marketing
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