This may seem like one of those enigmatic Zen Koan riddles, but I promise you it’s not: When can an unpublished Facebook post be more powerful than a published Facebook post? First, let me strip away one of the layers of mystery: By “unpublished” I mean not published to your Facebook timeline. As you know, […]
Organize Your Home Office Day comes but once a year…even though it’s something we should probably do on a quarterly (or maybe even monthly or weekly) basis. For many of us, our home offices become our comfortable little nests where we spend the single biggest part of our days and because they are such familiar […]
When you are buried in the day-to-day operations of running your business, it’s easy to get tunnel vision. Your nose is to the grindstone everyday just getting it done. Such a limited perspective is one of the biggest reasons business owners fail to seize growth opportunities. Myopic vision limits your ability to think about the […]
You know it’s been a good week for small business articles when one features a 65-year-old handgun and Taser packin‘ grandmother who runs a bail bond business from her home office! Leadership, management and productivity Consumer goods entrepreneur and startups specialist Toby Nwazor outlines five ways small business owners sabotage themselves without knowing it. If […]
A friend of a friend gave his wife a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. Relating this story to me, my friend wondered out loud how it was possible that his buddy was still alive. This is the classic husband mistake: giving his wife something that he thinks will make life easier for her and that in […]