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Reflect and Adapt (Better Decisions Step #6)

Categories: Risk, Tools | Tags: adapt, decisions, reflect, resistance, risk | 2 Comments

Decisions worth spending time and effort on are rarely "set it and forget it". During and after implementation, review the decision. Does it still make sense? Once again, expect a fight from Resistance. Know your enemy. Look him in the … Continue reading →

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Is it Your Decision to Make? (Better Decisions Step #1)

Categories: Risk, Tools | Tags: decisions, risk | 2 Comments

The easiest way to improve some decisions is to realize they're not ours to make. Sometimes that's obvious. You can't sell the book you borrowed from a friend, the house you rented or the Brooklyn Bridge. Sometimes it's not so … Continue reading →

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Stage 3: Chaos (6 Stages of Business Growth)

Categories: Measures, Missed Opportunities, Risk | Tags: 6 Stages of Business Growth, chaos, fear, process, risk, systems | Comment

As any gardener or parent will tell you, growing things are rarely tidy. If you've served your network well in Stage 1 and emerged from invisibility, then given your growth the fuel it needs in Stage 2, you get to … Continue reading →

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What I Wish I Knew Before I Became an Entrepreneur

Categories: Missed Opportunities, People, Risk | Tags: brainstorm, fear, mastermind, risk, starting | Comment

I just stumbled across these notes from a mastermind session at the Sacramento Speakers Meetup and thought I'd just post them raw. Which ones mean the most to you? Why?

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Playing it Risky

Categories: Risk | Tags: fear, Jerry Kennedy, risk, safety, travel | Comment

Stuck in Bakersfield because snow had closed the freeways, I called Jerry to see if he'd look up travel info. Yet another reason to have a smart phone (we call ours "ignorant phones" because they really only do two things: … Continue reading →

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Finding Why Makes What and How Become Clear

Categories: Administrivia | Tags: change, fear, happiness, peace, people, risk, work | Comment

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