“Any successful business needs – and will always need – a lot of people, both inside and outside, to make it a winner.”
J.W. Marriott, Jr.
 
If you’re scoffing because I happened to use two titans of business as my examples in Part 1, don’t despair.  Each and every one of us has the same ability to [...]

“Any successful business needs – and will always need – a lot of people, both inside and outside, to make it a winner.”
J.W. Marriott, Jr.
 
Did you know that the single most important component of any business transaction has always been and will always be people?  Sometimes I wonder if we aren’t missing the boat.  We [...]

As a follow up to my previous blog entry, and in the name of balance and good judgment, I would like to propose a new interpretation of the term Business Relevance.   One that takes into consideration an organization’s  success from the inside out as well as from the outside in.  Now, in addition to asking [...]

The other day I Googled two words, “business” and “relevance”.  I didn’t know it at the time, but these words show up together, or at least pretty close to each other, millions of times in the seemingly endless resource that is the internet.  Five million, five hundred and forty thousand times, to be exact – [...]

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
 
Here’s a great statistic.  It’s true every time.  I wonder how often we end up not taking a shot for fear of missing the goal, when not taking it will net that same feared result 100% of the time.  So what are we really afraid [...]

What is it about change that so intrigues us?  Is it the promise it holds for a better tomorrow and the benefits we stand to gain from it, or is it the trepidation we so often feel when we’re forced out of our comfort zone and left to stand on the threshold of the unknown?  [...]

Hype.  It’s never in short supply during an election year, but 2008 seems to be supercharged.  Perhaps it’s because there’s a general sense of dissatisfaction with our nation’s current state of affairs.  Whether it’s because of the war or the economy or the high price of oil, we seem to be ready for something new [...]