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Kenan Samms

Kumon Uses Old Innovations Today

Still wired from 20 hours in flight and now lounging in the Ritz-Carlton hotel bar in Singapore, I flip to an article that underscores an often-overlooked pattern of innovation: When the competition is going after the “new” thing, ...READ»

Kenan Samms

ePrize Connects Clients And Decreases Costs

As I wrap up my study of ePrize, I wanted to share more from my interview with Josh Linkner, CEO and founder of ePrize. I was impressed by his dedication to finding new innovations. The company is leaps and bounds ahead of its closest ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Stand On A Strong Foundation - ePrize Was Focused From The Start

Yesterday I began my inspection of ePrize’s continued dominance in the internet promotional marketing industry. I found that its current market share is directly related to the foundation and creation of the company. Force a ...READ»

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ePrize Versus Slither: Fabricating A Competitor To Stay Innovative

The interactive promotional company ePrize is under siege by a uniformed group of attackers from their archrival, Slither. Except Slither is a competitor fabricated by ePrize’s management to keep this innovative company on its toes and leaning forward.READ»

Kenan Samms

Tradestation Competes with Microsoft Instead of e*Trade

In 199 AD, in a now-legendary Chinese military tale, a general named Sun Ce defeated his larger opponent by tricking him into leaving his stronghold unguarded. This maneuver led to a historic turning point: the first unification of ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Lessons From the Obama Campaign Part II

Yesterday I began my review of the innovators and strategies that the Obama campaign employed to win the presidency. Here is another tried and true method for success that you can implement into your own business strategy. Coordinate ...READ»

Finding New Product Uses

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I believe I've said before that I take no salary from my company in order to give it more to build with, & instead, I work outside jobs. Among my many skills is that of carpentry - master ...READ»

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Lessons From the Obama Campaign: Overcoming Skepticism and Winning People Over

Barack Obama?s historic win provides us with some great examples of how true innovators are successful. If you dissect the strategies to which his campaign credits its victory, you will see several patterns of innovation at work.READ»

We Are Now 28 of Us

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. The title says it all. 28 being 4 * 7, 2 holy numbers in the Lakota Way, 28 is, too. We're growing, & this is good. Interesting this should happen when U.S. political history - & perhaps, ...READ»

Chinese Warriors

Microsoft vs. Google: A 2,400-Year-Old Move

This week several seemingly unrelated news articles are actually talking about the same thing: a fundamental pattern of competition that reveals the underpinnings between Google’s and Microsoft’s emerging battle in online ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Find and Follow the Path Less Traveled

My good friend Sabrina Herrera wrote to me recently to say that the company she cofounded 15 years ago has gone public. Genomma Lab was able to become the only over-the-counter drug company traded on the Mexican stock exchange. ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Three Business Choices to Grow Your Company By - Today

This is not an ocean. The tide is not out. Not every ship is sinking. It seems everywhere I go people are captivated by what CNBC has to report, minute by minute, tick by tick, wondering when their 401-Ks might hit rock ...READ»

ARCTIC   |  Comment

Talk About Nerve! A Business-Political Rant

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives.  I received an email recently that claims Wal-Mart senior management has been calling mandatory meetings for the company's employees in which the employees are told they "cannot" ...READ»

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Talking About Nerve!

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello my relatives.   I received an email recently that claims Wal-Mart senior management has been calling mandatory meetings for the company's employees in which the employees are told they ...READ»

Michelle Rhee

Obama and McCain Fight Over A Woman

As the two presidential candidates fight over vouchers and charters in their third debate, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee gets a shout-out. Where was she? "Asleep," she says. But she dismisses any talk of her becoming the next Secretary of Education as "ridiculous."READ»

Two-Eagle Re-Post of Excellent Article

Homeless Entrepreneur Shares Office With Millionaire| posted by Francisco Dao I recently read an article that said a recession is a great time to start a business because when times are tight, deals can be found on many of the ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Thriving in Chaos - A Bank Rises When Everyone Else Falls

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” - Henry B. Adams Recently my wife and I closed on a new home in Greenwich, CT. Each day that we waited for mortgage approval seemed to open with yet another front-page ...READ»

Kenan Samms

A Chicken Farm Gobbles Competition - How You Can Too

"Look before or you'll find yourself behind." -          Benjamin Franklin In a moment of great upheaval, with financial giants falling daily, and Wall Street reorganizing fundamentally, I thought you might ...READ»

Amazement is Magical

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello my relatives.   I amaze myself every so often, and that's both fun & magical.  Then again, sometimes things happen that amaze me, and I have few complaints there, either.  This last happened ...READ»

We're Twenty-One (of us) Again. Ahhh!

We're back up to 21 members. I like this. I still don't know why we lost that member, and may never, but I'm not a happy loser, especially when I don't know why; because if you don't know why you lost, you can't fix what needs ...READ»

Change

Change Management or Change Attitude? What do you think?READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

HUMAN FACE?

Entrepreneurship with a human face BUT with low costs, quotations and big profits. Irony or reality? What do you say?READ»

Oops and Ouch! and We Don't Know Why

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I got a notice from Fast Company that they removed one of our group's members "for activity deemed inappropriate to the group and/or Fast Company". That's the whole notice. While I, at ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Obligation & ability of our new leaders

Is it only a need or an obligation and ability of the new leaders to procure and evolve innovative models of leadership which would meet the requirements of nowadays society? Also, what characteristics they have to add in their ...READ»

21 & Climbing!

Hanh mitakuyapi.  Hello my relatives.   We're at 21 members now.  The winning number in blackjack..  An excellent number in the Tarot, & we with a vested interest in minority micro-business development definitely ...READ»

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