The Lucky Sperm Club
The adage that “it’s lonely at the top” has a lot of truth to it. Nobody understands your problems, and there’s no one you can discuss them with. Except here.
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05, 2017
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02, 2017
Saving a Small Business in Trouble — Ten Things a Day
Ten things a day: Whatever you are facing, saving a business in trouble, or even just improving an already-successful business, it’s great advice.
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11, 2016
Committees and Car Talk
By Alec Pendleton, Big Ideas for Small Companies Consider the modern automobile. From the moment an idea is hatched until the finished product is delivered to a buyer, the process is kind of a miracle. There are, I’m told, about 25,000 parts in a typical car, and every one of them had to go through basically the same process: someone had an idea, and that led to developing specifications, which led to design, then to manufacture, to assembly, to delivery. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, the process can take several years, and at every step along the [...]
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10, 2016
Hard decision?
By Alec Pendleton Are you facing a hard decision in your business today? Let’s face it, the answer to that is usually “yes”. On any given day, there’s typically something that’s gnawing away at you, something you’re struggling with. To me, the first question to ask is simple: whether or not the decision is really “hard”. That may sound like a silly question, but really, it’s not. The question is whether the decision is hard, or just unpleasant. Over many years, I’ve spent a lot of time building up my ulcers, agonizing over some decision or other. Now, looking [...]