“Making Money is Killing Your Business” is named Business Book of the Year
NFIB, the leading small business association with 500,000 businesses, has named my book, Making Money is Killing Your Business, the number one business book of 2010.
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Chapter Six in my next book, Bad Plans Carried Out Violently, is about Conation, the most important business word you’ve never heard. Its antonym is just as obscure and just as critical for you to know – velleity.
Business is Full of Beaver Dams
Traditional business plan thinking tells you that if you plan well enough, you’ll avoid all the “problems”. But usually it’s those “problems” that lead you to the best plan.
The Industrial Age is Dead - Time is the New Money
As a business owner, you’re likely carrying a lot of baggage from the Industrial age (1800-ish to 1965-ish) that won’t fully go away for decades to come. He who makes the rules wins. You need to stop running your business on Industrial Age rules.
Your Competition, Isn’t.
I’ve sold millions in big contracts and small and never once thought about “competition.” It’s NEVER a factor. I don’t think I have any. I don’t believe you do, either. If you think you do, you’re probably not thinking straight.
The Holiday Advantage
Assumption – December is a black hole for growing our businesses. We might as well just relax & make peace with it. Not really.
A Business Maturity Date Really Works
Two years ago, in March of 2009, I wrote this blog http://chuckb.me/xF about how I started my business 3 1/2 years ago in March of 2007. Four years after we started we’ll have a Mature Business, which is what we intended to do.
Bismarck had it all wrong - Retirement blows chunks.
I’m working on my third book “Retirement is a Bankrupt Industrial Age Idea” and the research confirms everything I’m seeing in the world around us – the title of my book reflects reality. We’ve got to rethink the whole idea.
More - Business Is Like Surfing
- Take lessons, learn how. – Who’s your business advisor?
- Never surf alone – Where’s your business community?
- Don’t surf with sharks – Make your own business rules, don’t play by others’.
Business is like Surfing
A long time ago I lived on the ocean and while describing the cycles of business to somebody last week it dawned on me it’s a lot like surfing –
