Business Owner’s Blog

The biggest mistake is often thinking you know something. This is a bit paradoxical because you can’t be successful in business without an over abundance of confidence. So you have to be confident and questioning at the same time. This is actually why entrepreneurs see opportunities where other people don’t. But it’s also why they […]

There is no plot, no love story, no car chases. Only one explosion (and you’ve seen that one before). Sounds boring. Why should you see it?
It will captivate you! It’s about your home, why it’s in danger and what you can do about it. And despite being about an impending disaster, it will give you […]

I don’t usually write about big companies because the stuff is not applicable to us small-frys. But, as you may have heard, Bill Gates is leaving the day to day work at Microsoft to devote more time to philantrhopy. It turns out there are some lessons we can use - in large part because Microsoft […]

President Clinton was the keynote speaker at the NAA conference last week. He posed 4 questions to the audience:

What is the nature of the world in the 21st century?
What should it be?
What can be done to make it so?
What can each of us do?

The speech was basically a call to think of what we do […]

Innovation is the sexier of the two. The cool ideas and “why didn’t I think of that?” make it seem easy. But it’s not.
Execution (though hard) is actually the easier of the two. But it’s boring. Tedious rather, and it takes discipline. These are things we didn’t like about school. But execution works. And anyone […]

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I know you don’t run a public company, but you can learn some things from this situation. Before the memory fades, here are some lessons that entrepreneurs can take away.
Don’t invest where you work.
Enron employees who did this got creamed. My financial advisor won’t even put people into stocks in the same industry as their […]

A system is a set of parts which accomplish something by relating to one other. Drive a bolt through a pair of blades and the three parts form a system we call scissors. As a scissors they’re more than two blades and bolt. Systems have meaning beyond their parts.
- John Lienhard Engines of our Ingenuity
What […]