On March 1, 2010

Having Ideas Versus Having a Vision

In the past decade, firms have been praised for ideas. Experts have celebrated the power of brainstorming and idea-generation techniques. Eureka light bulbs have populated the covers of many books. Businessmen have been asked to improve their <a…

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SBB Small Spark Contest – Build Your Brand With Guest Blogging

Blogging is such a big business these days. It is a great way to communicate with other business people as well as customers or even just friends. As an online business owner or professional blogger, writing for others can get…

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On March 1, 2010

Trading Places: A Smart Way to Change Your Mind

How's this for a neat idea about where to find new ideas and apply them to your business? Maxine Clark, founder and CEO of (publicly traded) Build-a-Bear Workshop, switched companies for a day with Kip Tindell,…

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On March 1, 2010

Want to Motivate Employees? Let Them See Who Their Work Benefits

Does your staff interact with the people who benefit from their work on a regular basis? If not, you might want to consider ways to let them know who they are serving. Wharton research finds that this can be an

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How Behavioral Economics Can Help Cure the Health Care Crisis

This post was co-authored with Bret Schroeder and Tom Weakland

Noncompliance with medical advice is one reason the U.S. health care is so costly. Yet it has received only cursory attention in the national health care debate — undoubtedly because…

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On March 1, 2010

Business Plans are Never Done

If your business plan is finished, your business is finished.

I’d like to think that this is obvious, but a lot of people don’t get it. A business plan isn’t supposed to be finished, ever. If it’s useful to your…

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How To Avoid Impatience at Buying Delays

We help a reader who wants customers to buy more quickly.

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On March 1, 2010

Why Your Personal Brand Sucks: Attack of the Clones

Personal branding is a concept on fire. On Twitter and other social media sites personal branding and social media experts are a dime a dozen, and that's just the problem, says blog Six Pixels of Separation. With the floodgates of

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On March 1, 2010

Make Your iPhone More Secure with an Alphanumeric Password

iPhones are chock full of critical personal and business information -- you should secure it with the same vigor as your laptop.

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Why Doctors Still Don’t Use Electronic Medical Records, Part XXI: Terrible Tech Support

Small physician practices lack the resources and technical expertise to implement electronic records on their own. The government is setting up regional extension centers to help them, and the AMA has teamed with Dell Perot to do the same.

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