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The Bootstrapper's Bible
I shared my notes from The Bootstrapper's Bible on Sources of Insight .  The Bootstrapper's Bible, by Seth Godin is full of insights and actions for improving your effectiveness in starting businesses.  Seth includes a rich set of rules and Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 06:28 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Eight Big Trends
While researching the future, I came across the free E-Book, What Comes Next? A Trends Perspective for Our Future , by Jim Carroll .  I think Jim shined the light on some very key trends that are reshaping and redefining today's business. The 8 Trends Read More...
Posted 02 January 09 01:43 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Four Stages of Market Maturity
You can tell the maturity of a market by the consumer patterns. If you know the life cycle stages of a market you can better anticipate what level of "needs" your product needs to match to be successful. (I always think of needs in stages like Maslow's Read More...
Posted 31 December 07 11:28 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Love Your Dogs
I read an interesting article on behavioral economics by Harry Quarls, Thomas Pernsteine, and Kasturi Rangan, in "strategy+business" magazine. According to the authors, behavioral finance supports a counter-intuitive strategy of loving your market "dogs" Read More...
Posted 31 December 07 10:55 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Three keys of a business case
If you have to compete for resources or budget or sell an idea, one of the keys is a business case. One way to think of a business case is "how big is the pie" and "what's your slice." You use the business case either to argue for your project or in argument Read More...
Posted 20 December 07 12:50 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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The Five P's
How do you design an org? While there's lots of approaches, one of my mentors shared the 5 Ps approach with me. To think about the org, you need to enumerate the 5 Ps to define the organization, the type of talent you need, overall organizational competencies, Read More...
Posted 19 December 07 11:29 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Testing Your Organizational Clarity
How do you figure out what your organization is really about? It's one thing to know it intutitively. It's another to be able to share it or have meaningful dialogue. Here's the tests I use lately to know what a team or org is really about: Tests for Read More...
Posted 02 October 07 05:09 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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