When this tagline from the famous Wendy’s restaurant chain commercial came up in a conversation recently, I laughed hysterically. It features a group of spry, diminutive, elderly ladies inspecting a tiny burger on an over-sized bun, representing the competitor’s product, and repeatedly chanting “Where’s the beef?” It was enormously popular and successful for Wendy’s, and …
Sometimes the simplest questions are the most enlightening. When it comes to achieving a laser focus on the most critical things we need to do, the problem is not usually what “to do”, but rather what “not to do”. Focus is critical to getting results in just about any undertaking. Yet, if you’re anything like …
More than fifty years ago physicist Edward Lorenz demonstrated something that came to be called the Butterfly Effect. As the illustration goes a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan sets off a chain of events in the atmosphere that can alter the course of the weather on the other side of the planet. (Butterfly Effect- …
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In every business there are hidden profits waiting to be exposed. Like with anything the way we look at our business determines what we see. Most of us use the lens of “cost” to look at and mange our business. We see everything we do, including people’s actions, where we look for improvements, and ultimately …
Michael Lewis’s bestseller, Moneyball, and the movie version of the book starring Brad Pitt are chock-full of great insights for business. But after reading more than 50 articles and blog posts on it, it’s evident that the most critical message seems to have gotten lost. And it’s a message that has enormous implications for every …