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Growth is not a bad thing. But, unmanageable growth presents a set of challenges often overlooked when discussing small businesses. The emphasis tends to center on the marketing and promotion [...]

  When most people think of Ancient Egypt, visions of pyramids usually come to mind. But they built more than pyramids. For example, the above image is of the Ramesseum.  It’s a mortuary [...]

  Design thinking is a 5-stage framework for creative problem solving and its all the rage in many leading universities and enterprises: Empathize –> Define the Problem –>  [...]

  In 1974, Chinese farmers unknowingly discovered what’s described as the “most important archeological finds of the 20th century.” In an attempt to dig a well, they unearthed a [...]

  “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand pictures.” A videographer once told me this.  At the time, I chalked it up as being part of his sales pitch. I’ve [...]

  My poor plant! As you can see in the After shot above, it’s clearly dying. After four years of care, despite my best efforts, I couldn’t rescue it. But then something happened… Letting Go [...]

  Michael Avenatti, Elizabeth Holmes, Felicity Huffman, Robert Kelly, Robert Kraft, Michael Jackson, Lori Loughlin, Billy McFarland, Jussie Smollett… As the first quarter of 2019 comes to a [...]

  To the untrained eye, the image above may look picturesque — an island with a bold, sprawling white building surrounded by the blue waters of the San Francisco bay complemented by [...]

There’s no shortage of people who make resolutions at the beginning of a new year. We even make strategic plans for the year based on our goals. But I have a proposition for you. What if [...]

I absolutely could not let 2018 end without telling you about my new (and highly anticipated) book! It’s called Behind the Facade: How to Structure Company Operations for Sustainable [...]