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Kenan Samms

Lessons From Gandhi--When You Do Not Compete, You Have No Competitors

What do Deepak Chopra, Jerry Adams, Moby, Ted Kennedy, Wyclef Jean, Dennis Kucinich, John Legend, Mitt Romney, and Mohammad Yunus have in common? They and 390 other big thinkers are all waiting to speak to you, right now, thanks ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Addicts Must Hit Bottom First – Innovation Will Help Our Economy Recover

I’m in Colombia right now doing a series of seminars for different groups and companies, including Hewlett-Packard. As I travel across the globe, I see one positive sign of this worldwide economic breakdown – people ...READ»

Kenan Samms

A Prescription For Doing Good – Pfizer’s New Ethonomic Treatment Plan

Over the last several months, I’ve introduced companies that are successful while also doing good for all stakeholders – employees, the community and shareholders. Many of the companies that I have introduced are younger, ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Save Your Clients Money – What Could Be More Ethonomic?

I believe that success requires constant evolution and like all successful innovators, Global Medical Imaging (GMI) is ready to change again. Two years after successfully shifting its business model from only offering medical ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Blow The Competition Out Of The Water

If everyone else is selling apples, you should be selling apple pie. If everyone else is selling apple pie, you should be selling apples. By aggregating or disaggregating things, you can step away from direct comparison with your ...READ»

Kenan Samms
BEST BUY   |  1 comment

It’s Almost Summer - Time To Shed Your Skin

In 2005 Ryan Dienst and his team were coming to a painful realization. The medical imaging device company they founded three years ago was in the wrong business. Global Medical Imaging (GMI) had built up a healthy revenue stream ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Water Your Employees And Watch Them Grow

My 3-year-old son kept running up to a big boulder in our back yard. He wanted me to chase him; he wanted to play. Two minutes earlier we had a completely different plan in mind – two minutes earlier he was immensely excited about ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Have A Back-Up Plan To Your Back-Up Plan

Every week I share a few stratagems to help inspire my readers. But if you’re not familiar with my books, Hide A Dagger Behind A Smile and The Way of Innovation, then you probably find the stratagems interesting but not ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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A Spoon Full Of Sugar Helps Investors Take Their Medicine

Every time my 3-year-old son sees a bottle of children’s Tylenol he asks for “petesina.” That’s his word for medicine or “medecina” in Spanish. Does he have a headache? No. Is he addicted to pain killers? I hope not. But ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Create A New Category – Build A Profitable Niche

On Wednesday I started an examination of an investment strategy firm that specializes in microfinance, Minlam Asset Management. As I interviewed one of Minlam’s founders, Mike Hokenson, I noticed a reoccurring theme that I see ...READ»

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