Business haiku

Equality doesn’t guarantee equity

Saw this little nugget while re-reading New Venture Creation by Timmons.
In the early 1970s, three groups of unemployed Canadians, all in their 20s, all with at least 12 years of schooling, volunteered to take up residence in a stylized economy where the only employment was making woolen belts on small hand looms. They could work [...]

Mantra is the new Mission Statement

Guy Kawasaki is one of my favorite people thinking about business. I love his cavalier way of thinking about business and how to get things done. I recommend that everybody should at least peruse Art of the Start. One of the items that Guy talks about in the book is the notion of a Mantra. [...]