How to Take Action Without Getting Stuck We’ve all been there, those moments when you find yourself endlessly analyzing a decision, cycling through every possible outcome, and trying to anticipate every potential obstacle. It’s not just frustrating; it’s paralyzing. Overthinking isn’t just a timewaster; it’s a progress-stopper. It’s a productivity killer. And for many of […]
Trust Your Gut: When Data Isn’t Enough, Intuition Counts
We live in a world driven by data. Numbers, charts, algorithms, and analytics are the backbone of modern decision-making. And while data is crucial, there’s one element that often gets undervalued in today’s data-driven society: intuition. Your gut instinct. That unquantifiable feeling deep inside that nudges you toward one choice over another when the numbers […]
Invest in Yourself: The Most Important Resource in Your Business is You
Most Saturdays I take the time to invest in myself. It’s kind of like a personal webinar day. I usually have a couple of books I’ve saved for the day. There are times when I go and watch some videos that are germane to the topics I am studying that day. I will take a […]
Why You Need to Learn to Say No
Why is it so hard to say “No”? I must admit that this is a problem I deal with all the time. I am a people pleaser, many of us, nay most of us are people pleasers, we like to say yes, we like to try to help people, especially when they are offering something […]
The Power of Consistency
Why Showing Up Every Day is Half the Battle Woody Allen said it best when he said that half of being successful in life is just showing up. It’s being there every day in that tortoise-beats-the-hare kind of way. Consistency is the secret sauce that sets successful companies apart from those that struggle. It’s not […]
Pay Your Bills!
When Will Big Companies Start Paying Their Bills on Time? Okay it’s about time that someone talks about this! Let’s address a truth that PCB and PCBA providers across America know all too well: there’s an alarming and frankly disturbing trend with our customers—especially the larger ones—not paying their bills on time. For the industry’s […]
Innovative Sales Strategies For Success
A Girl Scout wanted to sell a lot of cookies. In fact, she wanted to sell more than any other girl scout that year. She was smart enough to know that she could not do it by going door to door. She knew that a lot of the other Girl Scouts planted themselves in front […]
Great Innovations From The Greatest Innovator Of Our Time
Continuing my series on people who influenced the world I want to talk about Steve Jobs. We all know who he is, and we all know what he did. How he impacted the world, or made a dent in the universe as he was fond of saying. Most of the time when I write about […]
Don Draper On Business And Marketing
I have always said that I am weary of people who don’t eat meat and claim they don’t watch TV. As readers of this column know, I am always amazed by what we can learn from television, especially good television like the AMC Original Program “Madmen.” This series presented a virtual treasure trove of sayings, […]
The Times They Are A Changing
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin’ – Robert Zimmerman And how they are! I have […]