Category: Mr. Ball

Challengers win because they’ve mastered the complex.

I’ve seen this to be true over the last 20 years. Know your business and make sure you give your opinion and try to help your customer understand. Great article.     HBR Blog Network MATTHEW DIXON AND BRENT ADAMSON   Matthew Dixon is Managing Director of the Corporate Executive Board’s Sales and Service Practice. Brent Adamson…

Unfortunately, the Great American Dream has become the Great American Lie!

I got this from my twitter feed @texacotrust and thought it illustrated something that I have been thinking and living since about 2006. The idea that more is not better is hard for most people to pull away from. Reading the Book The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim’s Blog by Tim Ferriss @tferris certainly pushed me in the right direction a…

Early Detection of Stroke-Indicators that save lives

After having a close high school friend die of a heart attack at age 47 I have been more aware of good advice about early killers. This stroke info was sent over to me just the other day from my buddy Tim in Nevada, and I thought it might be good to share. Some folks…

99% accurate Test Conditional Probabilities is the Problem

It is possible to teach a sense of proportion Share reddit this Jonathan Wolff The Guardian, Tuesday 2 January 2007 Article history It is a terrible thing for an academic to have to admit, but journalists do a much better job of educating the public than we do. True, academics have the ideas, but journalists…

Don’t Compete on Features by Andrew Chen

Don’t compete on features The “Ultimate Driving Machine” is a classic slogan that makes BMW compete based on position, not features. It’s hard to keep things simple, especially when adding so many new features In my recent post on the virtues of marketing simple products, a couple readers wrote in to write a really interesting questions…

Don\’t waste your money on lawyers – humbledMBA

Don\’t waste your money on lawyers – humbledMBA.   humbledMBA Jason Freedman’s lessons learned…and relearned. Home « Back to posts Viewed 1179 times June 2, 2011  Don’t waste your money on lawyers When I started my first company Openvote, I asked my lawyer’s advice on every legal matter.  I thought it was essential that he be involved in…

What One Trillion Dollars looks Like

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How to Be Irresistible at Any Age zen habits

How to Be Irresistible at Any Age zen habits. How to Be Irresistible at Any Age Editors’ Note: This is a guest post from Christopher Foster of The Happy Seeker. Many years ago, when I was a young fellow of 23, I said goodbye to my native England and journeyed to British Columbia. My heart said…

Col. West talks about who we are fighting in the war

This is genuine – and well said Newly elected to congress a Republican, Col West is from southern Florida. This new Congressman was an extremely popular commander in Iraq.  He was forced to retire because during an intense combat action a few of his men were captured.  At the same time his men had captured…

Why smart people defend bad ideas

Good job Mr. Berkun – okollie http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/40-why-smart-people-defend-bad-ideas/ Why smart people defend bad ideas By Scott Berkun, April 2005 We all know someone who’s intelligent, but who occasionally defends obviously bad ideas. Why does this happen? How can smart people take up positions that defy any reasonable logic? Having spent many years working with smart people I’ve…

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