How to Be a Hero for Your Business in 2011
When I was an adolescent, World War II fascinated me. The combination of the ever-present memory of the Holocaust in my synagogue coupled with a boy’s fascination for blowing things up led me to read all kinds of exciting histories of the war in Europe and the Pacific. I returned to that recently in reading […]
Interview with Larry Willeman- CFO-for-Hire
One of my earliest marketing mentors Robert Middleton recently put me in touch with a fellow Portlander, Larry Willeman. We met for tea and I had a fascinating time hearing about what he does. Larry is a remarkable person (as is Robert, I’ll be interviewing him soonish.) Through his consulting firm, Willeman Strategyas Partners, he […]
The All-Everything 2010 Round-Up
I have two half-written posts that are going to stay half-written for this simple reason: illness has visited our home. I was sick all last week, and then my wife Holly went down on Friday, and we were wiped out all weekend. While parenting two insanely energetic toddlers. It’s been fun. Don’t send flowers, just […]
BB Guns and Guidance
In 1993, when I was still a rookie paramedic, our ambulance responded to a rural location in Solano County, California, for an “unknown medical.” What we found were three adolescent boys who had been playing with a BB gun, and one of them had shot the second one. The third boy had finally, after more […]
Why Doing Workshops Will Put You In the Poor House
I was teaching one of the final classes for the 2010 Opening the Moneyflow participants, and I made an offhand comment, “You know, because it’s really hard to make a living just from workshops.” Someone in the class immediately jumped in, “Whoa… Whoa… Did you really just say that it’s notoriously hard to make a […]
Disaster–Email Black Hole
Yesterday, Friday, all of us on the team realized that we weren’t getting any email. Email normally comes in at a fairly steady clip all day every day, and yet there was nothing nohow nowhere. We figured out the problem and got it fixed, but the end result is that there was an email black hole between Thursday […]
Losing a Team Member: Big Changes
This is a little lengthy, because the story it tells is not a sound-bite, although it has rich learnings about business and truth. It also is a bit of a confessional, of my own mistakes and learnings. The Short Story Version Kate resigned. We went into emotional turmoil. Big insights and learnings. We’re reconfiguring Opening […]
The Real Reason It’s So Dang Hard to Go Against the Herd (And How to Do It Anyway)
A friend of mine admitted that there was a tipping point she passed in terms of blog readership, where suddenly it exploded. She said there wasn’t anything she did, it’s just that once she had a certain large number of readers, everyone else wanted in. We see this dynamic play out again and again. As […]
Yollana Shore ZING!
If you want your business to carry you, instead of you lugging it around, please join us for Opening the Moneyflow 2011 Last week I made up for being incredibly impolite and finally introduced you to Jason Stein. Today I’m wanting you to meet Yollana Shore, our other Heart of Business practitioner who is involved with Opening […]
Why Paint-By-Number Rarely Works In Business
Quick Intro: No-cost call tomorrow “Six Months: Go!” Join us tomorrow, (or at least register so you get the recording if it’s too late to fit it in), for a free call on how to make the most of the first half of 2011, including where to focus, what your business needs, and a teaching […]