Category Archives: Reality checks

Winning From Losing

I love this!  Honda has been doing a series of web videos about various topics.  They’re short, well-produced, and fascinating.  I am very fond of one of their latest batch, which is all about not being afraid to fail and the lessons learned from failure. Continue reading

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All Roads…

I spoke with a couple of friends today who got to the same place from very different beginnings.  One has been self-employed for 30 years; the other has worked for a number of prominent companies for about as long.  Both are unhappy, both are concerned, both want to make changes in their lives.  And somehow both ended up with the same realization. Continue reading

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Dripping The Business Away

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Sometimes things that go wrong in a business are hard to find. Sometimes we don’t even know they’ve gone wrong. It’s easy to spot the employee that disrupts a vibe of a department or the salesperson who isn’t producing. Other problems are much more insidious and require a deeper dive by management.  The problem is that unless the business is under performing as a whole some managers are happy just to mosey on down the road. Continue reading

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