Browsing: Entrepreneurship

Every system, every bureaucracy and every organization creates boundaries. Sooner or later, we say, “I’d love to fix this, but I’m not in charge of that.”…

Complaining is a cultural phenomenon, but it’s particularly prevalent in societies with a consumer culture (the customer is always right) and those where comfort is coming…

Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way of a good quote. But what does it mean? I…

What sort of progress? | Seth’s Blog Nothing stays still. Relative to the rest of the world, even something that’s not moving is changing. It’s tempting…

Organizing for urgent | Seth’s Blog There are many ways to prioritize our time and focus, but the easiest and most vivid way is to do…

Analysis = Facts + Interpretation | Seth’s Blog If you fail to show us the facts, it’s difficult to accept your analysis. While it’s tempting to…

Consulting firms rank brands on value. Marketers promise to increase it. But brand value has little to do with whether a company is famous or even…

Checking all the boxes | Seth’s Blog The simplest way forward is to see which boxes your target market has and then check all of them.…

Expertise and credentials | Seth’s Blog In the ideal world, credentials would be awarded to all experts, and withdrawn from all charlatans. But they don’t always…

The weird arithmetic of coordinated action | Seth’s Blog Twenty handwritten letters received by someone in power are worth a hundred times as much as two…