Growing Your Company thru SOAR

We are all familiar with SWOT – Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.  Few of us have not experienced creating one; it is sort marketing101 and even Business Planning101. It is effective and often used tool. What you put into it, is what you will get out of it. I challenge the use of SWOT occasionally, Read More …

Shrinking Middle Class of Sales Accounts

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube A short open-ended discussion about the shrinking middle class of sales accounts. Are you seeing the same thing? Place a comment on YouTube.  CAP-Do (More Info): What makes CAP-Do so attractive is that it assumes we do not have the answers. It allows us to create a Read More …

Achieving Explosive Growth with Traction

Gabriel Weinberg is the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track you with over three billion searches in 2015. Previously he was the cofounder and CEO of Opobox, which was sold for $10 million. Weinberg resides in Valley Forge, PA and on twitter @yegg. He is author of Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Read More …

The 3 Legs of an Agile Business Practice

An Agile Business must have three pillars to stand on Process Agility, Technical Agility, and Personal Agility, says Patrick Waara of ResponseAgility. Patrick was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, certified ScrumMaster, Read More …

The Practice of Personal Agility

Patrick Waara was the first and only Software Design for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt in Xerox Corporation before launching ResponseAgility.  Patrick has more than 30 years of experience in software and IT, including software development, web development, systems engineering, project management, networks, and IT infrastructure. He is my guest in my next podcast Read More …

Designing through Promises, Part 2

Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and promise theory. Mark is the author of numerous books, articles, and papers on Read More …