photo by Jerry A lot of thought over the years has gone into what makes a business great. In the business classic “Good to Great” by Jim Collins, 5 years of painstaking research led to a lot of interesting conclusions about what separated great companies from good companies (and all the rest). Some of […]

  photo by *yasuhiro The internet continually offers up all sorts of cool things – some of them are just entertaining (like the picture above) but a lot of them are world class educational resources, tools and ideas that most of us wouldn’t have seen 10 or even 5 years ago. If you’d like to […]

You can learn some pretty cool things on vacation sometimes.  It’s may be hard to tell, but the picture above is a pod of humpback whales engaged in Bubble Net Feeding (here’s a bigger view). What is Bubble Net Feeding and how does it apply to business?  Read on and find out!

  photo by jeffhillphoto.com Are you exhausted? How about just not energized or struggling to stay focused and ‘in the zone’?  Maybe you just feel sleepy a lot! A lot of people these days are feeling stressed, nervous, anxious and generally not as effective or productive as they’d like to be – and that lack […]

      It’s so Fluffy!!!!  from Despicable Me Do you ever get that feeling that you’re just beaten down…that it’s too hot and nothing really matters?   There are times (especially after you make the mistake of watching the news) when it seems there’s nothing out there but bad things, people struggling and an endless parade of […]

  photo by Esparta I was revisiting some of my older blog posts and I found one that I felt was really worth while.  The original post is called What are your Real Goals and it covers a powerful exercise that will help you look at what you want to do differently. One of the […]