One of our day-to-day business challenges is communicating effectively and efficiently. There is a real art to distilling complex ideas, organizations, methodologies or concepts into some format that is easy to understand while making it look easy, especially when it is not. If you want to differentiate yourself, learning to communicate those complexities so that …Read More
Busy or Productive
December 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
We all have those days where we busy to the point of exhaustion (today was one for me hence this blog entry). But how often do you stop and ask yourself if you are being productive or just busy? In 4 Hour Work Week Tim Ferris intelligently suggest that asking this single question several times …Read More
Write It Down
December 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It never fails to amaze me how many entrepreneurs fail to put things in writing and I’m not just talking about contracts. The act of writing down your ideas, documenting processes, writing a business plan, template sales letters and everything else forces us to view things differently than if we just “think” about them. The …Read More
Using Market Forces to Your Advantage
December 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
In conjunction with a long time friend, business partner and physician, Dr. Brad Bichey, M.D., we recently released a whitepaper entitled “Using Market Forces to Drive a Competitive Edge.” While the paper is targeted at medical and life sciences companies, the principals can be applied to almost any business. When markets turn down belt tightening …Read More
Start Up Business Tips: The Law
December 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I recently had an opportunity to attend a breakfast meeting sponsored by NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology). The breakfast was an opportunity for start-ups and entrepreneurs to learn about the legal considerations when forming a new company, including the preferred types of corporations, handling intellectual property and being prepared for your exit …Read More
The Danger and Benefit of Living a Multifacted Life
December 4, 2007 By 1 Comment
There is a recent book out that I am looking forward to reading called One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success by Marci Alboher about how many of us juggle multiple careers (sometimes simultaneously) and slash our way through multifaceted lives. I can’t officially recommend the book yet since I haven’t actually read …Read More
The Objectivity Challenge
December 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Many of our best business ideas will come from things we are passionate about or intimately familiar with. As we work our way through the process of narrowing down which ideas to turn into businesses we have to remain objective and turn the old cliche’ “it’s just business” against our selves in the process to …Read More
