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Your USP
- Category: Marketing, Uncategorized
In business, it is not uncommon to be asked about your USP – your Unique Selling Proposition. The USP is defined as that which makes your product or service different...
A time to celebrate
- Category: Living Well, Personal Development, Uncategorized
25 years old, 25th wedding anniversary. Anything you celebrate that you did for 25 years is a pretty big deal. This week my Vistage Members joined me to celebrate my...
Strengthen your core
If you have done pilates or are building flexibility and strength, you know how important it is to strengthen your core. It is not an obvious focus in the beginning...
VUCA Prime
- Category: Management Focus, Uncategorized
Last week I talked about VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The term comes out of Software Development where waterfall programming (developing the whole software before testing) got lapped by...
VUCA it is!
VUCA is an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It’s a framework used to describe situations that are unpredictable and rapidly changing. Well, doesn’t that sound like...
Age as an excuse
- Category: Living Well, Mindset, Overcome Obstacles, Time Management, Uncategorized
I really have a hard time accepting it when people use age as an excuse. “I’m too old to take the stairs.” “I’m too old to learn how to use...
Plan sooner
- Category: Time Management, Uncategorized
What if you pretended that it was already Dec 31, 2025? What if you were already planning strategy for 2026? What would you want to have accomplished in 2025 to...
Resolutions?
- Category: Accountability, Living Well, Overcome Obstacles, Uncategorized
You may have started the year with earnest resolutions to eat less, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, etc., and now it is one month in to the...
Focus on your strategy
- Category: Management Focus
This first week of the new administration in Washington has been full of executive orders, firings, pardons for convicted felons, termination of programs extant since the 1960’s, and senate confirmation...
The quality question
- Category: Communication, Leadership, Making better decisions
If you want to get better results, you may think you need to get better answers. Let’s go a little deeper here. Suppose that the question asked is the question...
Los Angeles – we will rise!
- Category: Leadership, Living Well, Overcome Obstacles, Uncategorized
The helicopters are still circling. The winds are coming back. The fires are not out. Houses are gone. People are still evacuated. The houses that remain are smoke damaged. No...
Containers around the world
- Category: The Economy, Uncategorized
Living near L.A-Long Beach, the largest port in the US, I’ve seen a lot of containers being moved. I’ve toured the port and been up in the big crane facilities...
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