What comes to mind when you conceptualize space? I don’t mean outer space in this context, but just space in your experience and environment.
Space is emptiness, isn’t it? But it’s more than that. Space is emptiness with purpose. The space between one object and another may provide important information in physics, construction, or
How thin is your personal margin? Many of us complain about it, but few of us make a serious effort to improve it. For any professional, personal margin is space, energy, and priorities. It is work life balance. Adequate personal margin can lead to gains in both creativity and productivity.
Although thousands of books and blogs
I heard a wonderful talk by Malcolm Gladwell, who is the author of a number of groundbreaking books including The Tipping Point and Blink. In his talk, he made a distinction between solving a mystery and solving a puzzle. With a mystery, there is information that hasn’t been discovered yet. Before the mystery
Many thanks to Shelby Miller Leight, Keller Williams Realty Group, Quakertown, PA for featuring me and The Walters Group in this video interview.
If you are a small business owner who needs to organize
Momentum in the business sense refers to the speed and direction a business has as it grows. Momentum covers all business movement, but the size of that movement could be great or minimal. In business, and in physics, there is one force that impedes momentum: friction. And friction in your business is like
To the analytic, what’s more basic to starting a business than having a strong formula for return on investment? They wouldn’t start a business in the first place unless they had solid business models, well thought out risk mitigation strategies, and detailed financial projections for future profit.
As it happens, not everyone who starts
In any business, but especially small business, lost revenue, lost profits, and lost opportunities can have a devastating effect. I use the phrase Profit Leakage to encompass all three.
Most people go into business to make money, right? Not necessarily. Many of my clients are mission driven. That is, they are motivated more by
When I started my consulting practice nearly thirteen years ago, I saw my fellow business consultants through two lenses. One was somewhat favorable: I viewed them as mentors to help me learn how to facilitate, teach, and act professionally. The second lens was darker and less favorable: I saw them as competitors.
There
Recently, as one of the moderators of a weekly luncheon networking group, I had the joy of facilitating a spirited discussion regarding employee retention. What transpired was a wonderful exchange of thoughts and ideas! If asked about employee retention, many business owners often assume fostering employee satisfaction always involves
One of the most important elements in learning, life, business, relationships – you name it – is the time when nothing really occurs; the critical, special place in between all of the other stuff.
That nothing space where the magic happens.
The importance of space is apparent in almost every discipline I can think
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