Several years ago, I listened as nine mid-level BPW leaders stood up and reported on their recent meetings. I gleaned at least nine great ideas, and one inspired this article. These ideas are as fresh as ever. Read through them, and think about your next meeting. District One Director Marie Thomas organized a group participation…
“It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs…
Sometimes, change or progress can catch your business in the crossfire. If your business is providing web-based email solutions, what do you think about a major article that says email is bad as a tool for collaboration, and needs to be replaced? The blog Small Town, Big Ideas comes from a company that produces webmail,…
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”— Theodore Roosevelt small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” This quote is variously attributed to Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Oliver Goldsmith. If anyone has some concrete info on the original source, I would be glad to have it. small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure
Jeanne (OkieJ) and I were keeping up with technology at a forum put on by the Business and Professional Women. We took a look at the new Windows Vista, and heard that the release is being pushed back again. Kevin Fream, President Matrixforce Corp., also gave us a look at Microsoft’s vision of the future….
Your business can be more than it is now. You can expand out from your current level to provide a more exciting experience. Chris Brogan (who is going to get tired of us linking to him) has some thoughts on this, Create Experience Packages not Products. It seems to me like this is the age…
Rob Spiegel shares his personal story of businesses he has started. Some failures, some successes. Here are his conclusions: There are a couple things I’ve learned over the years. Get your nut [overhead] small. Find something you really, really like doing – you’re going to have to do it a lot, and you’re going to…
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