E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

Business advice and business books today seem to be based on the idea that there are things that are just good management practice and if we do them, no matter the context, we will be successful. And to the degree they are right, we basically have to manage many of the same variables, and if [...]

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I was a skeptic of Goldfire’s search capabilities, but yesterday, I saw a demo and was very very impressed. The words “power the switch” and “switch the power” produced cardinally different results, unlike any other search engine out there. The whole system is built to integrate with many unstructured data sources and delivers cross-language results [...]

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I am a huge fan of not for profit sector. I devote a lot of my time to charitable activities. I do believe that charitable organizations can become a more significant tool in shaping our world. Yet, today I will argue that charities are sometimes less effective than government. This is an argument for my [...]

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Many years ago I set out to understand what it means to be successful in business management. I wanted to reduce business management to something that can be done somewhat mechanistically. Yet what I discovered, along with a set of principles for successful management,  is that any decent sized business is going to be by [...]

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