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Bricks, Walls, Cathedral

I'm always looking for techniques to help be a better problem solver - specifically, ensuring I'm solving the right problem. (The last thing you want to do is spend time fixing the wrong thing). One method is to examine your problem [...]

Bricks, Walls, Cathedral

Creating Ideas: Think The Way You Think

Do you sometimes wish you had an easier way to organize or gather your thoughts? Ever been working on a presentation, proposal, or to-do list and didn't know where to start or where you were going to go? A map would [...]

Creating Ideas: Think The Way You Think

Three Simple Decision-Making Tools

We make decisions all the time. Big ones, small ones, easy and challenging. Making the right choice can be obvious, and sometimes it requires time invested in thought. Luckily we have simple tools to help. (1) Pro & Con First, the [...]

Three Simple Decision-Making Tools

How To Deal With Change

It is vexing, despite the fact that change constantly takes place in our lives, at times it can still throw us off-kilter? So what can we do to not let change get the best of us? The Facts NEVER: Change is [...]

How To Deal With Change

Project Stuck? Try Using A “Black Box.”

When a scientist or engineer designs a new process, they run into many unknowns. You can expect that when creating something from scratch. However, they could have so many unknowns, if they tried to solve each as they occurred, they'd get [...]

Project Stuck? Try Using A “Black Box.”

Idea Generation: Great Ideas Are Looking Up

Ever wonder why great ideas seem to pop into your head at the strangest (and now and then inopportune) times? Like when you're... falling asleep, in the shower, or working out? It's not a coincidence. These are times when your body [...]

Idea Generation: Great Ideas Are Looking Up

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

Whenever we get toward the end of the year, we start thinking about next year. The plans, programs, and activities will allow us to meet and exceed our goals. Here are our seven steps to building your annual plan like a [...]

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

12 Tips For Successful In-Store Events

No matter what you call them... your customers, clients, consumers or participants - they are all Guests when they visit your location. Being a great host to those visiting your location is no different from entertaining friends and neighbors at your [...]

12 Tips For Successful In-Store Events

Go Beyond Customer Rewards, Create Loyalty

We all want our customers to return to us. In a moment of choice, we hope they would choose us again over a competitor. That they'll be loyal to us. Google will provide you with thousands of ideas for both reward [...]

Go Beyond Customer Rewards, Create Loyalty

The One Question You Need To Solve Business Challenges

When business isn't running as we'd like, it is easy to become fixated on end results. "If we could just drive sales...." "If we could just get more traffic..." While these results are important, what we really need is the how. [...]

The One Question You Need To Solve Business Challenges
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