June 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM
In 1997, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen coined the term “Innovator’s Dilemma” to describe the situation in which a company becomes the victim of its own success and gets toppled by new technologies. The term gets bandied about quite a bit, but lately it has been applied to an unlikely target, a corporation that until recently has been seen as invincible, superhuman, and immune to the forces that disrupt ordinary organizations: Apple.
June 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM
Small businesses are deceiving. Why? Because there's really nothing small about them. The ideas that spark them, the minds that lead them, the risks that advance them, and the heart that goes into them -- they're all pretty ... big.
If we were playing a game of Truth or Dare right now, and I choose "Truth," and your question was "What are you doing right now?," my answer would be "Sleeping."
That's a lot of what-ifs, but it's my way of telling you that today is day one of a three-day staycation that I am so excited for. But it's also my way of showing you that I love you, dear reader.
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June 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Small businesses don't exactly have it easy. And with new marketing technologies emerging at a rapid pace in recent years, it's no wonder 59% of small business owners say it's harder to run a small business now than it was just five years ago.
June 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM
This situation sound familiar? You have an idea, then lose it, then come back to it again. You write it down quickly, check some email, get derailed, jump into a meeting, grab a coffee, then settle back in … only to hate what you thought of in the first place.
You have no problem writing a post once you have an idea, but coming up with the idea in the first place can be the hardest part.
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