This is a few snippets from a great article on Web Startups by Paul Graham. If you are a start-up or hoping to be, web or not, there is content in this article you need to read. – When starting a startup was expensive, you had to get the permission of investors to do it. [...]

This article contributed by my special guest, MJ Gilhooley. It was once said that the true sign of business integrity is collaboration. Expanding on my earlier article on Business Relationships I want to add one additional step. It is paramount to the enduring success of any firm to reinvent, renew and restore the relationships within its own walls [...]

Listen live this Friday to my first Small Business CEO Podcast which I have titled Finish the Company. Ron Finklestein, famous author and small business success coach joins me to discuss being selfish and how all small business leaders should practice what Ron calls enlightened self-interest.

You think the internet is just a fad. You think a Yellow Pages ad is a complete marketing plan. You hire employees based on first impressions. Your business has no one responsibile for customer service. You think ‘we have always had customers, why should I get more?’ You have the navigation for your website on [...]

Very early in my management career (1976-1993) I worked for a company called Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1979 I went into the management development program and obtained my first management position in 1980. One thing DEC invested heavily in was a formal management development program. At each level of of management there was a [...]

This article was contributed by my special guest, MJ Gilhooley. The importance of maximizing technology, rather than hiding behind it, is worthy of note in today’s tech-crazed business culture. Regardless of our server size or our dashboard widgets, blogs and blackberry’s, enduring business is still the result of key, well maintained human relationships. While the [...]

If we asked the following about your company, how would you answer: In your company, who is responsible for creating your strategy? Which comes first, the strategy or the tactics? How do you come up with your strategies? If we were looking for your strategy, where would we find it? If you find these tough [...]

I watched the movie series Toy Story with my kids recently and have become a big fan of one of the characters, Buzz Lightyear. Buzz is futuristic space toy come to life within the lead characters room. (A human) He has cool features like active laser beams, karate chopping arms, pop-out wings and a rocket [...]

Over the last two months I have been running excerpted articles from a new book titled 49 Marketing Secrets That Work to Grow Sales. I thought it was time to reveal the excellent authors behind the 6 part excerpt that I posted here. Below is the link to each of the articles, some biographic information on the author and [...]

Isn’t momentum in our actions and behaviors an amazing thing. We become so ingrained in how we go through our day that even a ‘near death’ experience will not cause us to change. What am I talking about? Our human resistance to change, particularly in the workplace. One of the key responsibilities of the leader of [...]