
There has never been a better time to invent, create and innovate game-changing products, business models and services, and you’ve got to change it up dramatically to succeed…
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There has never been a better time to invent, create and innovate game-changing products, business models and services, and you’ve got to change it up dramatically to succeed…
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Arthur Helps
Paralysis by analysis is risk avoidance, the fear of making a mistake. It’s the excuse of needing more and more information. Simply put, it’s the incapacity to make and stick to a decision. Is it a fear of the possible consequences? Maybe…if it could only be that…
Read More »December 28, 2011 | Leave A Comment »

Bad Parenting Techniques don’t apply at the Workplace Either
Conflict happens everywhere and comes from a miscommunication over a variety of sources: conflicting goals or priorities, or even a lack of shared goals. It can also derive from personality conflicts and the competition over scarce resources. Thinking and communicating styles along with personal and organizational values may also be causes for conflict. But I am positive you already know this. This is not the tough part. What you need to be aware of is that your ability to identify conflict and how you respond and resolve it will limit or enable your team’s success. Therefore, learning to manage conflict is integral to high-performance teams…and per extension, how you manage conflict at home may tell a lot about how you handle it at the workplace…
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National Disorder Crisis- A Three Part Series
June 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Truth, the most difficult hires you will make are sales and business development hires!
Truth, it is more costly to make a sales hiring mistake than any other hire mistake.
Truth, there are many types of selling environments and what works for one customer sale may not work well at all for another type of customer sale…
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Michael Franken, Partner
Will 2011 be the year ‘cloud computing’ becomes well understand, in common, by business and information technology leaders? Research from vendors, consultants and industry groups point to ‘cloud’ moving out of hype into an ‘accelerating [and more mature] state of adoption’…
Read More »June 20, 2011 | Leave A Comment »
May 6, 2011I jumped into the open-source movement early on, and it was a natural fit for me—first as co-founder of a company manufacturing and developing Web servers using the Linux operating system, and later joining Red Hat, a globally known open-source software company.
My role then was to lead revenue growth and build an organization to sell free software to the world. Figuring out how to do that would be the biggest challenge of my career…
Read More »by Michael Franken, Partner Economic Reality and CEO Expectations In 2008, services drove 75% of US and developed country gross domestic product (GDP). This is up 50% from the late 1950’s when services accounted for about half of GDP.1 At 2050, services value will stabilize at 80% of GDP. Firms constantly seek to grow revenue, …
Read More »May 05, 2011 | Leave A Comment »
A quick search of the internet on new revenue strategies will yield a variety of interesting business models: service products, affiliate streams, membership models, etc. These all are great chaff for sparking creative analysis of how a growth company (defined here as a company who believes that new revenue sources are important to survival; not …
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