My first foray into owning a business was a lawn mowing business a buddy and I started in college. We tried three strategies for getting new business: We taped flyers onto the mailboxes of homes we thought could afford to hire us. Generally speaking, the USPS is insanely inefficient at their job, however the local […]
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Kyle manages a group of estimators for a regional construction company. His team is responsible for estimating building projects such as large hospitals, sports stadiums, and multi-use downtown developments. His dozen or so team members are busy, busy, busy. They can also be sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. When they miss something, the company has to
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Where should we focus our attention – on shoring up our weaknesses or on improving in areas where we are already strong? One of my favorite stories about the tension between focusing on strengths versus addressing weaknesses comes from the world of professional basketball. Shaquille O’Neal was a dominant big man in the NBA
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I learned to ride a bicycle when I was four or five years old. Like most people, rode a bike a lot as a kid, and then I occasionally rode through my early teenage years until learning to drive a car. Until last month, I don’t think I’d ridden a bicycle for maybe 30+
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