Making your product or service stand out from the competition is business 101. One strategic way to do this is to build a moat around your organization. Charlie Munger, the…
Have you ever seen a marketing agency whose marketing could have been better? What about life coaches whose personal lives are trainwrecks or accountants with unorganized finances? You’d probably think…
What is more critical to your business: finding new, more prominent clients or retaining smaller, recurring clients? Companies should aim for a healthy mix of both to survive long-term. If…
A business acquisition, especially that of a competitor, can help grow your business in ways you couldn’t do organically. Its client base, products, services, or intellectual property can be precisely…
A professional business strategic partnership needs to make sense. Perhaps not as dire as China and Saudia Arabia, partnerships between big businesses can make sense — consider Starbucks in Barnes &…
Resistance to change is not something new. Consider personal behaviors around diet and exercise, and you’ll realize it’s harder to change an organization than to change yourself. However, in either…