The True Story of David and Goliath

Of course, most of us are big fans of Malcolm Gladwell. He had delivered some of the best TED talks and this story, The unheard story of David and Goliath is another one. I have used David and Goliath in many examples for other reasons and I am certainly happy to have this one as Read More …

Boundaries of Kanban in Sales & Marketing

@markusandrezak. is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast. Markus Andrezak is speaking at the upcoming Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference (It is Hamburg, Germany, Nov 4-5, 2013) about Boundaries of Kanban – Disruptive Innovation. An overview of Markus’s talk sums up our conversation in the podcast quite well. Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference: Read More …

Not 4-Hours but 24 Steps for Startups

My interview with Bill Aulet,  24 Steps to Successful Entrepreneurship discusses his process described in his new book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup. You can miss the podcast, not read the eBook below but if you are serious about Entrepreneurship, I highly recommend the book. The book is already in its 2nd Read More …

Successful Practices using The Silva Method

I have been familiar with The Silva MethodTM for many years and have not always been a proponent of it. Jose Silva had no formal education and had little in the way of any evidence that what he taught was correct. In spite of all this, he created what we refer to today as an Read More …

Are User Personas that tough?

Many of us when we think about User Personas, Buyer Personas, User-Experience Design or whatever flavor we would like to call it, feel that it is this mysterious process that is highly technical or very creative. Well the truth is that you can make it whatever you would want but the best User Personas are Read More …

Communication as a Process

The Process Communication Model (PCM) was developed by Dr. Taibi Kahler and Judy and Joe Pauley have been teaching and implementing this model for over twenty years. Their website for more information is Kahler Communication. The Six Personality Types of the Process Communication Model identified by Dr. Kahler are; Reactor, Workaholic, Persister, Dreamer, Rebel, and Read More …