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
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
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
An Ordinary Day
The other day my wife told me she was having trouble with the upstairs TV/cable remote. She was frustrated. She just could not get it to work. She exclaimed the channel changing button didn’t work; the volume button didn’t work. She thought it might be a setting, but she couldn’t create any change there. Finally, the
You’re working hard every day in your business. It’s the middle of the first month in a new quarter. How’s your company performing? Are You Making Money? How Do You Know? Quite simple isn’t it? These are three impactful questions that aren’t asked nearly enough by
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