E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I have been thinking about ingredients of excellent performance and have arrived at combination of ability*motivation*ability to learn*ability to maintain and increase motivation*selection of the right direction*ability to adjust direction or approaches as needed. It is starting to sound a lot like personal version of the Excellence Matrix: ability will tools approach target feedback constraints [...]

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As I was watching Torchwood, I had a thought that had nothing at all to do with the realm of Sci Fi. Sci Fi after all is just a reflection of our psyche. We view our threats as big ugly monsters, who come to attack us. Yet, it’s the small things that often come from [...]

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E-M8 looks at 8 aspects of managing a business, but the way each of those aspects appears in businesses is a function of the phases in business life-cycle. There are 5 major phases that have been identified, by Greiner and many others, including independently, myself (I arrived at the phases by looking at rules of [...]

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I just enjoyed the previlage of watching The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. The story is awesome, the delivery is superb, but most of all it teaches us the value of a good head fake: when we are directing someone to do something that they may think is fun not because of the intrinsic value [...]

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Best use of time and money is typically to figure out the best way to use the rest of the time and money. This is a concept that I learned from Doug Hubbard a while ago, but am just now starting to really internalize.  How much time on your schedule is dedicated to allocation of [...]

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