In marketing, we are all told to clearly identify our ideal customer. We segment, differentiate and profile the people who we think are most likely to buy from us. Typically in any single industry, we have identified the same group of people as our competitors. That’s how it happens right? We all do the […]
In hierarchical business structures, people will be promoted as long as they continue to work competently. This is the primary theory behind the Peter Principle as formulated by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in 1969. It goes on to say that eventually they will be promoted to a position that they are no longer competent – their […]
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche You have this great idea. It’s massive. One of those $100M ideas. Are you sure that you have it 100% right? Positive? What if you were 90% right – that would be ok wouldn’t it? […]
Getting a new business or venture off the ground takes an immense amount of energy. Not just in the first few months, but for the first few years (and then some). Without a strategy, a vision, or a raison d’être that allows you to focus on what is important and avoid what is not, your […]
