by Rick McPartlin | Oct 22, 2014 | Strategy
Every day we are told how to learn about running a businesses from sports examples, and that works in a lot of cases. One big difference, however, is the “Business Season” season never ends. For every sports team, there is the chance to change everything after the...
by Rick McPartlin | Sep 24, 2014 | Strategy
Business Strategy, “Revenue Strategy,” deployment, execution, planning and budgets…where does one start and another end, and does it really matter? Are they all the same, are they different, or are they just consultant speak for let’s go do a workshop? If they...
by Rick McPartlin | Aug 20, 2014 | Strategy
My most surprising vacation was to Salem Massachusetts. I had been in Massachusetts hundreds of times and Salem, at least 3 times. This time, I went with my kids as one of my teenage daughters, a writer, was fixated on the Salem Witch Trials. She had told me the...
by Rick McPartlin | Jul 30, 2014 | Strategy
Sleep, exercise, diet, relax, laugh, smile, and a glass of red wine have a lot to do with health. Like the commercial says, “Who doesn’t know that?” But knowing it and applying it are two completely different things. Even though we know about each of these, what we...
by Rick McPartlin | Jul 2, 2014 | Strategy
CEOs have two choices in hiring: CEOs can search for great people and then create motivation, alignment and profits – BACKWARDS!!!! CEOs can hire passionate, motivated and aligned people who are chasing the CEO’s bus because those people already on the bus are...
by Rick McPartlin | Jun 25, 2014 | Strategy
SEO, Keywords, Clicks, Views, Email Campaign, Brand Image, Community, Cloud, Web Presence, Mobile, Apps and all those other words are things you pay a Digital Marketing Agency to do for you. They must be about better lead generation or shorter sales cycles, or higher...
by Rick McPartlin | Jun 18, 2014 | Strategy
Before there were cell phones, I lived in a college dorm and had to make all my phone calls from a pay phone booth on my floor. Teenage guys are not likely to win awards for organization. So when they were on the phone and needed to make a note, they would borrow a...
by Rick McPartlin | May 28, 2014 | Strategy
Sales are up, I have more employees every month, profits are growing, my bank likes me…how can things get any better? This is the business equivalent of being 22 years old, feeling great, being able to eat or drink anything, looking trim, feeling healthy, having...
by Rick McPartlin | Apr 30, 2014 | Strategy
Have you ever met an entrepreneur who didn’t have something cool that everyone on the planet would buy the day it goes to market? I have never talked to an entrepreneur who wasn’t passionate about what they were bringing to market. When the entrepreneur evangelizes,...
by Rick McPartlin | Mar 28, 2014 | Strategy
The real estate crash. Obama Care. The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, the bank collapse, the Greek banking crisis, high employment, off-shoring, GM’s bankruptcy. Libya, Egypt, inflation, nuclear meltdown, Generation X, Generation Y, the Baby Boomers, call centers in...
