Category: Strategy
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#78: How can we meet our customers before our competitors do?
Stop for a moment and think about all of the events that had to have happened for you to be reading this right now. Pretty insane right? While we’re going through life it can seem pretty random, but by taking a moment and looking back, doesn’t it seem obvious it turned out like it did?…
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#77: WHAT is our competition?
I bet you know exactly WHO your competitors are. In fact, you could probably make a list off the top of your head right now. But do you know WHAT your competition is? From my experience a far more important question. For the purpose of this discussion … ‘WHO’ would define the other businesses that…
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#75: Should we be more impractical?
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” So much to think about in this quote from Cecil Beaton – described on Wikipedia as a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter,…
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#72: Where is our wisdom?
Here’s the biggest problem I see in business today … We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. So, here’s some wisdom for you from a guy by the name of Harrington Emerson … “As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles…
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#71: Do we have who it takes to amaze our customers?
During a torrential downpour, I took shelter in a shop doorway. As well as key cutting and shoe repairs, the shop also sold umbrellas. Lucky me I thought – until I discovered that I’d left my wallet at the office 🙁 The shop manager who’s seen me search my pockets whilst looking at the umbrellas…