That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs Renown philosopher and leader of the English […]
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The company is over 100 years old. But you wouldn’t know it from its revenue curve. For nearly 30 years that line is flat to decreasing at an increasing rate. Same goes for profits. The only way the firm can generate a profit, and that being meager at best, is by performing some type of
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“Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.” [Leviticus 19.9, NASB version] Over the years MindMeld has been fortunate to consult and collaborate with a number of very successful business people and organizations. And
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Roy Disney once said, “When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” While most organizations have a working values statement, the extent those values are actually believed, practiced, taught, and modeled by the entirety of the company has an enormous impact on its overall success. 64% of decision-makers cite shared values
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Election cycles bring out the best in people—or not. Visiting our daughter at a large Midwestern university last weekend was quite the eye-opener. Seems political messaging and manure slinging is as nasty and prevalent in America’s heartland as it is in the sleazy world of Chicago politics. From the sound of it the corruption is
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