My good friend and colleague, Dan Coughlin, has just published his new book, Accelerate: “20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum”, which is now available in all major book stores. Dan has also been our featured guest contributor for our April Newsletter:

Milton Friedman, possibly the greatest economist of the 20th century, died on November 16, 2006, at the age of 94. With a list of remarkable accomplishments such as: winning the Nobel prize 30 years ago, writing several profound books, advisor to governments and presidents, his most important one is that of the popularization of the free-market principles – the separation between government and business. He claimed that the Great Depression was not, as was once commonly presumed, a “market failure,”...

I am a firm believer in the power of a mastermind group and its ability to improve your business. Read my December 2006 article “1 + 1 = 86 or the collective brainpower of a mastermind group” and find out how to create one and get the most out of your group.

Seth Godin, author of several great marketing books, talks about why small is the new big. He illustrates several examples as to how companies strive to become big and fast but many lose their market share to smaller companies who are often more profitable. So what are some of the benefits of being small according to Seth? Small means the founder makes a far greater percentage of the customer interactions. Small means the founder is close to the decisions that...

Diversity in most organizations is no longer a matter of counting statistics and attempting to do the right thing, it is now vital to business success. In order for companies to sell locally and globally they need to better understand their target audience mix and include a diverse perspective of their employees. Top executives will also need to better understand cultures in countries around the world. In the article “The New Diversity”, published this month in The Wall Street Journal,...

The brilliant thinker Peter Drucker who invented management as a field of study and research, died today at the age 95. As noted in the Wall Street Journal and in Drucker’s book, The Essential Drucker: Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. Because management deals with the integration of people in a common venture, it is deeply embedded in culture. What managers do...