by Chris Reich | May 20, 2013 | General Business
Entropy is the thing that eventually kills an old business. Even giants fall to entropy. Hostess fell to entropy!So what is it?In physics, we say that in a closed system, entropy always increases. If you add some hot water to cold water, there will be a place where...
by Chris Reich | May 20, 2013 | Small Improvements
Monday is here. We are in the final third of this month. Are you spending today doing something that matters or are you filling time and avoiding the things that could actually improve your business?Spend Monday doing things that make a permanent improvement—at...
by Chris Reich | May 19, 2013 | Toot my Horn
If you’re busy being busy you are not producing. Here’s what I shipped this week:One business has blasted off after getting a couple hours of advice from TeachU (Several thousands in sales!)One business has completely turned around! After losing a huge...
by Chris Reich | May 19, 2013 | Small Improvements
So many stale businesses have something about “continuous improvement” in their mission statements that the expression no longer has meaning. If your business talks continuous improvement, why is changed resisted? Why are new ideas met with zero...
by Chris Reich | May 16, 2013 | General Business
You have heard of course that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. Of the billions and billions that have fallen to earth, no snowflake has ever been exactly duplicated.That seems pretty remarkable until you think about complexity.A single snowflake is made of...