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Are You Naming the RIGHT Problem?
Leaders spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to solve problems, and far less time asking whether they are solving the right ones. We gather smart people in rooms, analyze data, debate options, and emerge feeling productive because something has been clarified. Yet clarity, by itself, is a slippery comfort. It can give the impression…
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Building from Brilliance
Some communities have developed recognizable economic signatures. Jewish merchants, shaped by centuries of restrictions on land ownership, mastered literacy and finance, creating networks of trade and professional services. Indian diaspora families, carrying memories of colonial merchant roles and extended kin systems, now own large shares of global hotel and corner-shop markets. Ethnic Chinese networks, long…
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Small Business Success Requires an Open Mind and the Ability to Think
Thinking seems to be a lost art. Today you can get an answer to virtually any question by typing in our question into a search engine. Compare that to the age BEFORE Google where children had to use their imagination all through playtime and draw on both sides of their brains to solve problems. Playtime…
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Was I Trying to Set My Brain on Fire?
I was feeling like this guy but I wasn’t smiling. Beware of the open ended project. The one with no deadline. The one that you think about for weeks on end. The one that you throw up in the air and create strategies around it to keep it alive and well. The one you KNOW…
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Starting Off With Nothing….
We started off with nothing so we used that… Diane Latiker, Founder and Present of Kids Off the Block Inc. When we’re asked to take an inventory – whether it’s financial, spiritual, emotional…if we’re feeling particularly beaten down…we usually mouth, either silently or to others – that we have NOTHING. I’ve come to understand that…

