by tearwood | Mar 27, 2009 | Business
Yesterday, I attended the local chamber‘s structured networking event. I reference the format because it wasn’t your average social/business gathering. Instead, we had 20 minutes at a table with six attendees and a facilitator to discuss three business...
by tearwood | Mar 26, 2009 | Business
Two quick stories that reminded me the importance of pushing when appropriate with different methods. First, my friend who owns a growing business and I were discussing how some employees easily accept “No” for answer. He referenced his struggles with a...
by tearwood | Mar 20, 2009 | Business
I spent a good bit of my March in Las Vegas (LeadsCon) and Austin (SXSW) at conferences (which I paid for) and loved sharing startup stories with fellow entrepreneurs (Hint: everyone wants to tell their startup stories). Upon my return, I stopped by the bank and after...
by tearwood | Mar 10, 2009 | Business
In 2006, I had the pleasure of meeting Seth Godin and while I read most of his books, I don’t regularly keep up with his blog. However, I ran across his post last week and it struck a chord. The essence is… one person looked for a reason to NOT help and...
by tearwood | Jan 22, 2009 | Business
After numerous discussions this week (it’s only Wednesday) with clients and friends, I recognized a recurring theme… we all accept average effort. For the purposes of this post, I’m naming this status quo behavior as a person, we’ll call Gene....
by tearwood | Oct 10, 2007 | Business
If you follow sports (specifically baseball) you’ve probably heard last week about the outrage of the Cleveland Indians’ fan base towards local hero, LeBron James. Even the official Indians playoff blogger (and my friend), Chris Jung called him out. What...
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