E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

This Saturday I reconnected with a lot of cool people at School Factory during their re-ignition meeting. There are now 4 fiscally sponsored spaces that are a part of the Space Federation and hopefully, with the addition of multiple layers of affiliation quite a few more will join soon. By having the framework for org. [...]

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Something I am learning from my Taichi class that has a direct business application: Listen with your hands. The inclination of every beginner is to use their hands to attack or at best defend. Yet, their main purpose is to listen. By listening the attacks can be neutralized and new opportunities emerge. Think about it for [...]

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This summer I had an opportunity to learn a great teaching technique for Structured Thinking (TRIZ). Now I have an opportunity to start putting this stuff in practice and I am loving the impact that I see. Tough business and personal problems crumble in to simple solvable pieces. A work plan that allows sequencing is [...]

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I love the fact that I work for a company where my wife can join me at work if she feels like it. A place where people care and support my projects that don’t even directly relate to the company business. It is a great feeling to work at a place that allows me the [...]

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There are close to 4,000 companies in Wisconsin alone that have mastered the making of a widget. They compete in a highly volatile commodity product or service market and do a decent job of it. But the big buzz these days and has been for a while is making of unique, highly engineered products. The owners [...]

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