Sometimes the best business strategy is to stop innovating and just sell what you’ve got.
An old mentor used to say, “You have to take the roast out of the oven.”
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Bill Rice
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Bill Rice
Business Challenges…They’re Like Curveballs
It is amazing how many people with daily life challenges tend to rise above what those with near perfect lives never can.
I recommend reading this New York Times interview of John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems. This is one of my favorite quotes in the article–Chambers describes how he was taught to deal with challenges:
I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, worked with me and she taught me to look at it almost like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well.
Obviously challenges give us skills that make us better, stronger, and higher performing. Is that how you look at challenges?
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Bill Rice
Seth’s Blog: “It’s just business”
Amen!
If you are willing to compromise principles because “It’s just business” Why would I trust you to treat customers, people I care about, or me with anything but a what is best for you attitude?
Fire these people immediately!
(Via Seth’s Blog.)
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Bill Rice
Integrity has to be a Business Fundamental
Successful businesses have to be built on a foundation of integrity. You have a responsibility and trust built between yourself, your customers, your investors/shareholders, and your employees.
I have seen early startups swimming in deception about things like financial pro formas, market opportunity, sales pipelines, funding opportunities–they always flounder or fail in this state. Leadership that is willing to compromise their integrity will infect their companies with a cancerous tumor that is complicated to eradicate.
Marketwatch covers the H-P scandal and makes a nice reference to how Warren Buffett values managers, with integrity as a key tenets
(Via Marketwatch.)