E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I work for a company whose semantic search tool is smart enough to know the difference between “innovation management” and “innovation of management”. That in itself is pretty cool. But more importantly, I get to really think about the concepts of interest to me. Here is an example of my comment on the company blog. [...]

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Here is another Prezi, that is based on a model that I have since obsoleted by developing a better one, but it’s short and cute and I thought I should share it with you anyways. 5 Phases of business growth on Prezi

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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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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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I am sure that if you are old enough to read this article you have set through at least one deadly meeting in your lifetime. Likely you have experienced the manager causing interruptions that keep you from getting done the work that you want done. Probably, you have even been that manager. Yet I will make my case [...]

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