“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.” ~ Steve Jobs
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~ Confucius
“Big data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.” – Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty, chairman, president and CEO IBM.
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Whether you need business advice or would just like to get to know us, call anytime.Business Development and growing a business rapidly can also be likened to the job, or passion, of a fisherman. It starts with a clear vision and a well developed understanding of the territory and your targets, whether customers or future partners. Once you know where you are going and what you want to catch, it’s all about preparation; attitude, careful...
Learn MoreWatching this wonderful video of a 1950 Formula 1 pit-stop and then a more current Formula 1 pit-stop made me think about the role of innovation and technology in LEAN and Agile thinking, and vise versa. In industry much of the experience of the integration of LEAN process and LEAN thinking is the search for basic inefficiency; streamlining, de-cluttering and that often...
Learn MoreThis summer has proven to be one of the best fishing seasons in recent memory here on the New England Coast. I recently had the opportunity to go “striper” fishing with a great sportsman who to my great fortune has been a longtime hunting and fishing partner. We found ourselves into an epic pod of huge striped Bass that had been in this location the past few...
Learn MoreI often hear people in traditional industrial and commercial markets talk about how their market’s distribution model has not changed much. The thinking often goes: we, our reps or our distributors sell direct to our professional customer, it’s a relationship sale, the distribution model is firmly entrenched, our customers are professionals – they...
Learn MoreI read Seth Godin’s recent post on competition with interest, as I do with most of his writings. Seth is an interesting and provocative thinker. What he evoked for me with this post was the competition that we are finding in the market for buying companies. Some market’s are getting just plain overpriced. So Seth’s short commentary read to me as a...
Learn MoreTimes change and technologies evolve but finding and working with the right people has always been essential. This is short video about a few of the last British lighthouse keepers and it made me think about the never ending quest to find extraordinary people for whatever task or job you are trying to accomplish. . Pennant’s looking for a few good...
Learn MoreA great video blog on fly fishing along coastal waters of the Northeast:
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