E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

Yesterday we ran in to one of our acquaintances at the store the other day. He is a fellow in his sixties who did not even know how to turn on a computer a couple years ago.  Yet, when we asked him what he was buying, he said, “I would not buy anything here. I can order [...]

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In the world of business, as I am sure in many other areas of human life, there are many things that we do that don’t really make a lot of sense. One of the most powerful reasons for that is INERTIA, something we get when there is a lot of MOMENTUM. Inertia is inertia precisely [...]

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Being productive is a habit that can be developed and can be lost. I see it every day in the stores where employees are under-worked. When it comes time to be busy they have a hard time picking up the pace and thus lose customers and continue on with the same under-worked pattern. Keeping productively busy even during [...]

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If I had to describe in one concept the key reason for management failure it is the lack of feedback loops. An effective feedback loop reinforces positive dynamics or weakens the negative ones. It allows for the situation where nobody is surprised and if I could describe the state of business awareness that is necessary [...]

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Yesterday I spent 45 minutes to walk to a restaurant that promised me free WIFI to speak for 2 minutes with a technician from a company that is a contractor to their contractor, who has agreed for pay to arrange an Internet connection for my wedding day that will be provided through a different provider [...]

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