success

In praise of the follower

by Bill Wren on September 11, 2011

For what seems years now, I’m been hearing about leadership. I’ve been in conferences, read books and seen countless posts online about how you have to be a leader. Everyone on a team has to lead. It’s in leadership that success lies.

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Hazards of the mom and pop operation

by Bill Wren on June 22, 2011

A lot of small businesses fall into the category of “mom and pop” operation and we know what the phrase refers to: many constraints. The biggest is financial. A mom and pop operation struggles with just getting the product or service out there so it can be sold. They have limited reach, limited budget, limited [...]

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вик услугиOver the last four months or so I have been using social media far less than a year ago and I wonder if social media hasn’t hit a kind of tipping point and I’ve entered into a kind of fugue state where it is concerned. The dictionary on my computer defines fugue (second meaning) [...]

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Impractical pursuits and other questions

by Bill Wren on November 18, 2010

I have a post on Thoughtwrestling today called Nothing more to say – the secret brain. In it I mention something I call The Impractical Pursuits Project and I’m deliberately vague because I’ve not fully formed the idea in my own head yet. Part of it, however, is counter-intuitive – which is why I call [...]

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Respect customers and yourself

by Bill Wren on July 24, 2010

(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin’s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]

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