10 Steps to Building Community

One of the buzzwords these days is community. Most brands struggle with creating community, and the first reason is that most brands want the community to be about them. I like to take a different approach, why build one at all? Or, why not join an active community where you can be an influencer or Read More …

Traditional Marketing Stack

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that focus on Traditional Marketing concepts. Or, as we might say without Social Media component. Guest include Malcolm McDonald, Joe Pine, Laura Busche and many others. Traditional Marketing Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find Read More …

4 Powerful Words: What Do You Think?

Exactly, respect for people. I read a good story J.W. Marriott Jr. who said the four most powerful words he knows is ‘What do you think?’ So I was asking folks what do you think? Here’s a plan, what do you think, and then getting reliable promises, reliable commitments from folks to do that walk. Read More …

Becoming a Lean Construction Consultant

Dave MacNeel of On Point Lean Consulting: Lean Construction was my guest this week on the podcast. On Point Lean Consulting provides on-site Lean Construction coaching and training for owners, builders, and designers looking to improve the delivery of capital projects. Dave has a few great stories as he went from project management, introducing Lean into a construction company Read More …

Public Innovation: Cleveland Clinic Way

I asked Dr. Graham, the author of Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work this question: You talk about these practices, and I assume you believe they could be used by others in the medical field, that’s why you wrote the book, but what about outside the medical field? An excerpt from the Read More …

Adjust Step in CAP-Do

In response to a few comments that have surfaced on LinkedIn picture I posted about CAP-Do and captioned with: How do you start applying Lean to sales and marketing? I use CAP-Do, it seems practically to simple, but it’s like PDCA…how simple is it? Do you ever master it? The post found a variety of Read More …