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Every couple of years, McKinsey does one of these surveys where they ask big investors (the kind managing billion-dollar portfolios) what makes a company attractive. And every time, the answers reveal more about the state of business than just “what investors are looking for.” They tell us where business owners and executives should be aiming their attention.
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Once again, something completely unrelated to business has me thinking about employee motivation. This morning I was reading about conditional regard—a parenting concept in psychology that describes what happens when children feel valued only if they behave, perform, or achieve in specific ways. At first, conditional regard can look like a powerful motivator. Parents s...
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. Bla-bla-bla. Bla-bla. Blech.It cost me nothing to post that (well, possibly a little pride).In a discussion with other marketers yesterday about whether or not there is still a place for print marketing, one observation stood out: when a company commits to print, they tend to think harder, more strategically, about what they're producing. The resu...
Ever share a great idea and get ... crickets?
It may not be the idea. It could easily be the frame.
When you come up with an idea outside the usual frameworks or structures ... when it doesn't look like something people are familiar with, or follow familiar rules ... people often don't know how to think about it.
The brain likes patterns. Known shapes. Cl...
"What if I miss something? What if someone makes a mistake?"
I'm often asked these questions when trying to get business owners to empower their employees to be more autonomous, so the owner can focus on the bigger picture.
It's not necessarily because someone is a control freak either. It's because the stakes are so high. As an owner, they're "my stakes," and w...
