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focus

The Benefits of the Stand-up Desk

09.07.2010

I’ve been in and out of a stand-up desk as I’ve changed offices or moved, but I’ve been an advocate for a long-time. Many people I know use one, including

my former mentor when I was at MIT
my financial manager
Kevin Meyer of Superfactory, who’s be a very strong advocate

I’ve been through several solutions, including a stack [...]

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First Steps Video: Stay Out of Your Inbox

08.30.2010

Each Monday we are releasing small ideas that require only 15 minutes of effort to try, but they can still serve as your first steps on the lean journey. The First Steps Video Series is meant to make it easier to begin the journey – get some improvement, and some learning, and then take another [...]

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Focus on your core work

08.27.2010

So many things can distract us from what the core of our work is all about. Email is often a distraction, but there are so many more – Facebook and Twitter, consuming news whether on the internet or TV, politics inside your industry or company, promotion and self-promotion, and the list goes on.
Too often, the [...]

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Small-i ROI as Applied to Strategy

08.20.2010

Entrepreneurs and small business owners are all in search of a big return on their investment. How best to maximize my ROI? Many investing are looking for the big-R, the giant market. Where is there billions of dollars of opportunity? Surely, with billions on the table, we can grab a slice of it. There are [...]

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Take Customer Feedback Seriously

02.26.2010

Plenty of companies say the focus on the customer. Many of them say they want customer feedback.  
But few post unfiltered, real-time customer feedback on the front-page of their website where everyone can see it, whether good or bad. CustomInk.com can say that. Here’s just the latest feedback as an example. Of course, you see it’s [...]

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