There’s a entirely new way to work today that’s being made possible in part by the Internet. Global borders have fallen. The ability to find customers and suppliers from around the world is easier than before. More so than at any time in history has it been possible to create a lifestyle-oriented business. A New …
Over the past several years, I have frequently outsourced projects to freelancers and vendors to do work that my team didn’t have the skills to accomplish on our own. A portion of that work was outsourced to overseas contractors many of whom are in India, Romania, Russia, and elsewhere. In fact, I’ve outsourced over 110 …
In my last post, I mentioned that if Bill Gates were running your business, it would be doing a lot better than it is now for three reasons: 1) Desire to Win, 2) Bigger Thinking, 3) Better Business Skills Of these, the most important are actually the first two. If you have a massive desire …
From time to time, I play an interesting exercise with my business and my clients’ businesses. I ask myself, if Bill Gates were running this business, what we he do differently? I always assume that he runs the business anonymously, isn’t able to take advantage of his fame as the richest and most successful entrepreneur …
As many of you know, I’ve been doing a fair amount of research into the past 12 US recession going back 136 years–looking for what separated the winners from the losers. One of the big secrets from this research is how winning companies profit from new trends that emerge in a recession. The companies that …
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