Tag Archive: business

Book Review: Jump Point

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When they do arrive, Jump Points are necessarily startling and disruptive periods. They upset the status quo, threaten existing leaders, and rattle the complacent. . . . Most of our prevailing business assumptions will be challenged and a whole set of new ones will be born as businesses everywhere make the Jump. ~ Tom Hayes…

20 Cents from September 2010

Another month has passed all too quickly and it’s time to round up a few of my favourite articles from September. How quickly 2010 is slipping away! It seems like just yesterday I was writing up a few ideas on 2010 What Ifs for the New Year. Now it’s time to start thinking about what…

Is Your New Business Hiding Inside You?

Allison W. writes for The Digerati Life, a site that shares various financial articles about stock investing, saving and debt management. Check out the site’s reviews on the best high yield savings accounts and the top online brokers available to consumers. If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your…

2010 What Ifs

2010 Economic What Ifs

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~ Hal Borland Yesterday we looked at some notes that I had made at the beginning of 2009. Today, we look at possible problem areas for 2010. Again, these are obviously not…

Postcards from 2009

Postcards from 2009

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: This year is going; let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850 Recently I was cleaning up and encountered a sheet of paper I had written on with the title “Possible Tape Bombs…

Should You Run Your Home Like a Business?

It’s not enough to make time for your children.  There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it.  You can’t run your family like a company.  It doesn’t work. ~ Andrew Grove Well, obviously Andrew Grove, a key player in the birth of Intel, thinks…