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Success Goes to the Best Adapted

Every potential business strategy has the same ultimate aim. This is true whether you are trying to sell your business, go IPO, enter a new market, raise venture capital, hire top-notch talent, fend off competitors, manage increasing regulations, win an

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The Pre-Startup Checklist

Before a startup ever launches, you should have a checklist of critical items in place. These items have nothing to do with writing a business plan or forming the articles of incorporation. In line with the old saying “well begun

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A Beautiful Portrait of a Unifier Leader

I came across a phenomenal obituary written for Frosty Westering by Chuck Culpepper at Sports on Earth today. Frosty was the football coach for the Division III Pacific Lutheran football team and he was remarkable. He coached for over 32

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The Secret to Managing Everything

The secret to understanding management is this: Complex adaptive systems (such as people and organizations) must (1) shape and respond to changes in the environment and (2) do so as whole organisms, including their parts and sub-parts. If they are

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