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Mission's "R" Electric Racing Superbike to Make World Faster, Furiouser

Mission, maker of some sweet EV bike hardware, has revealed its latest two-wheeled electric wonder: The "R" superbike. It's slick, green, and will actually hit the track in zero carbon TTXGP races.READ»

Strategic Planning is Dead - Setting a Sound Strategic Direction is Not

If you don't know where you are going, any direction will get you there. By now you know that I am not a big proponent of the traditional annual strategic planning process.  Yet I do feel very strongly that one of the key ...READ»

The Anatomy of a Taco

We have come to expect that most of the packaged food found in grocery stores arrives from thousands of miles away. But what about the taco from the food truck down the street? Students at the California College of the Arts URBANlab ...READ»

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Fixing Your Marketing - The Problem of Penguins

Reason #1 why your marketing doesn’t work – You are using Big Business marketing rules. If you’re playing by their rules, you’re going to lose just about every time.READ»

Make more money – stop selling and let people buy.

We all want to buy things, but nobody really wants to be sold anything.READ»

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Astronaut Will Upstage Ashton Kutcher by Tweeting from Space

A mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May. If you're wondering whether NASA has some kind of built-in tweet software on ...READ»

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What is your message to the world?

Imagine this. You step on to the elevator. The doors are closing. All of a sudden, the leading pioneer in your field or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company steps on the elevator and pushes the button to the top floor. The ...READ»

Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership

In this first post, I share my thoughts with you on what has worked for me in assessing whether a leader has the ability to 'Lead People and Manage Things'. What I've found is that most successful leaders share a few things in ...READ»