grajgushost2019-09-23T22:02:03+00:00February 23rd, 2010|
If you strolled through Boston Commons during Halloween season in the first half of the last decade, you were likely bowled over by a scaffolding jammed with tens of thousands of glimmering carved pumpkins. Those [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:47:26+00:00February 7th, 2010|
Not long ago, the spiritualist and mind-body expert Deepak Chopra stopped in for a chat. What was intended to be a brief conversation turned into a four-hour idea fest. As is well known, Deepak is [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:42:43+00:00October 22nd, 2009|
In today's marketplace, the bigger the brands, the less valuable they have often become. Power brands have marketed themselves to create an image. But, their investment has not been geared toward how they enhance your [...]
grajgushost2019-09-23T21:20:59+00:00September 23rd, 2009|
The Swiss Army Knife is an icon for a multi-application tool. On the product landscape since 1897, its early options like a bottle opener, mini-scissors, corkscrew, and screwdriver are familiar to us. Have you looked [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:52:45+00:00August 20th, 2009|
Entrepreneurs are a bit like atom smashers. They provoke and harness collisions, what I term attractive accidents. ▪ They know how to bring together and constructively confront people in different disciplines and often with opposing [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:44:22+00:00August 13th, 2009|
Successful entrepreneurs are very much like archeologists, as well as detectives. Better said, their style resembles that of accomplished archeological guides. After you discover an exciting strategic truth about your business, communicating it is your [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:41:24+00:00August 6th, 2009|
Great entrepreneurs are inveterate detectives. I visited the Brainy Quote website for some chestnuts about detection from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of that master sleuth Sherlock Holmes: ▪ "It has long been an [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:44:59+00:00July 29th, 2009|
Agile entrepreneurs know how to tinker under pressure . . . without feeling that pressure as an inhibiting force. There is something rather bold and defiant about someone facing a deadline or a seemingly insoluble [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:45:15+00:00July 22nd, 2009|
The leader's inspiration is often the high-octane fuel that drives an entrepreneurial organization. Any organization today wants to confirm its instincts with validating quantitative and qualitative information. While understandable, that reassurance can prove costly. Information [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:35:23+00:00July 15th, 2009|
Nearly all budding entrepreneurs believe they are well suited to entrepreneurship because they are self-reliant and are accomplished chiefly because they get things done themselves. Almost all seasoned entrepreneurs have learned just the opposite is [...]
