Opportunity Thinking vs Results Thinking

A look at a select few companies and a comparison of Opportunity mindset vs Results driven mindset of leadership teams. Jamie Dimon is a classic example of Results driven mindset. Larry Ellison...

Disciplined vs Systematic

Disciplined vs Systematic mindset of leaders in a select list of companies. A sample of 22,500+ leaders (titles include Director, President and/or Chief). No wrong or right answer. Each company...

Ability versus motivation of the customer

I have been thinking about customers in terms of their motivation. You can connect that concept to their personality traits. One person’s personality might look at a ‘job to be...

When getting your business ready for change where do you start?

Here's some thoughts that might make sense. Step 1: Figure out who your leaders are and figure out what their mission and vision is. A lot of times we ‘hear...

Measured performance in an uncertain world

In reference to the above, when you're going through this cycle the goal should be to learn more, have clear ideas that are based on quantifiable expectations of underserved needs. This allows you...

Does geography & profession impact personality?

Whenever you're  researching a market by geography, there will likely be a limited set personality traits based on functional characteristics of your Market. For example, imagine doctors that live in...

Data-driven decision making without data

How do you make decisions when the data does not support what you intuitively know. Data-driven decision making is a great idea and it works really well when there's stability....

How your cutomers’ personalities affect your entire business

How are you feeling? Nope, not a personality question. Behaviors? Temporary. What are you like? Yes, that is a hint at personality. What did you buy last week, what did...

The personality of your customers in each state

Each State has a variety of personality types. Some States have more types than others. If you look at the distribution of types of personality by State you have to...

By Arranging Our Multiple Personalities, You Could Win A Million Dollar Date

Alphabetically, size, price, type, similarity, and even random are just some of the ways companies with large distribution centers arrange their warehouses in order to optimize time between order creation...