E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

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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This Tuesday I was at a presentation “Make the noise go away” that was put on by HNI and was really stumped by a question in the hallway as we were discussing what we just heard. The question had to do with the impact of the first in command being free to do what he [...]

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I am guilty of it, I earn much of my living by teaching and coaching people who would like some day to own a business. I am not saying that they don’t need coaching or teaching, precisely the opposite, they need lots of it, but there is a bigger problem: If you’re not sure how [...]

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