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Innovation and Execution: 2 Things Make a Company Great
3 Comments Published by John Seiffer June 19th, 2006 in Attitudes, Business IdeasInnovation 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 […]
I just posted Everything I know about Business all in one place.
Why Business News is Irrelevant
0 Comments Published by John Seiffer April 17th, 2006 in Trends, Business Ideas, StrategyWhat’s considered “newsworthy” by the business press is either about trends that have a very broad appeal, or what Hugh McLeod calls business porn. The reason any kind of porn has any appeal at all is that it’s a fantasy. So that kind of business news is obviously irrelevant. As for the trends - they […]
If you build it, they WON’T come.
Build a better mousetrap and ….[fill in the blank]
If you answered the world will beat a path to your door, you’ve been infected with the Myth of the Mousetrap. I say infected because myths are stories we believe about how the world works that turn out not to be […]
Make Money Selling Nothing
0 Comments Published by John Seiffer February 28th, 2006 in Business Models, Business IdeasYou can buy some at www.nothingforsalesite.com or read an article about it.
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Beats me. There’s a sucker born every minute? The first time you do something it’s news worthy? or humorous?
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