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| Donald Mitchell's Articles |
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- An Innovator Advises You To Apply Creativity To Be The Best At Everything You Do
Jan 28, 2009
Many people want to be creative successes but don't know how. This article explains why this kind of success is rewarding and how anyone can learn...
Category: Business
- A Mechanical Engineer Emigrates from Africa to Program a Better Career in European IS Management
Jan 27, 2009
Your career decisions affect future generations of your family. Are you making learning and job decisions that will lead to a legacy greater...
Category: Careers and Jobs
- Value-Based Goals and Plans Will Take You Where You Should Want to Go
Jan 26, 2009
Successful careers begin with good values. Drawing on those values, business people can develop goals and plans that will accomplish worthwhile,...
Category: Careers and Jobs
- Develop A Process For Continuing Business Model Innovation
Jan 19, 2009
It's tough to build a business if your innovations are one-hit wonders. What will you do for an encore? What process can help you?
Category: Business
- Business Model Innovator: Eliminate Harmful Costs
Jan 19, 2009
Look beyond your own costs to find places where costs are making your offerings worse, less helpful, or unacceptable.
Category: Business
- Business Model Innovator: Increase Value Without Raising Prices Or Costs
Jan 19, 2009
Many leaders look to add more value . . . so they can charge more. A more helpful approach to business model innovation is to raise value and keep...
Category: Business
- Business Model Innovator: Adjust Prices Downward to Increase Sales Profitably
Jan 16, 2009
Many people think that you can only make more money by charging more. When you reduce prices in the right way so that you encourage more spending,...
Category: Business
- As a Business Leader, Do the One Thing That Makes All the Difference
Jan 16, 2009
Most business leaders aren't even working on the things that will make the most difference. In this article, I describe the value of focusing on...
Category: Business
- To Learn from the Best, Watch Them While They Exceed the Competition
Jan 13, 2009
This article explains how to design a study of leadership to capture the important qualities to emulate.
Category: Leadership
- Get Your Points Across to More Readers by Reviewing Books
Jan 13, 2009
People read more book reviews than books. This article describes how you can use writing book reviews to share messages and direct attention toward...
Category: Writing
- Test Your Assumptions About Reaching an Audience
Jan 9, 2009
Do you want to be the best-read author in your field? Well, you can be . . . by writing and publishing online reviews of all the important books in...
Category: Writing
- Use Web 2.0 Sites to Improve Your Writing
Jan 8, 2009
Unless you are a famous author, you don't get enough feedback from readers to know how to make your writing more effective and interesting....
Category: Writing
- If You Want to Control Your Destiny, Become Immune to Flattery
Jan 7, 2009
Many people are diverted by manipulations that flatter their egos. Always carefully consider what the tangible benefits are, separate from the...
Category: Self Improvement
- Multiply What You Have in Time of Need
Jan 7, 2009
Most people are trying to do more with less right now. One option that many are overlooking is to chop what they offer into more appealing,...
Category: Business
- Ignore What People Care About . . . If You Want to Hear the Sounds of Silence
Jan 2, 2009
People are looking for answers . . . to problems they care about. Offer to help with those problems, and you'll get their attention. Disconnect...
Category: Marketing and Advertising
- Fill in Conceptual Gaps to Allow Others to See the Positive Business Possibilities
Dec 30, 2008
This article explains that without prior experience, most people have trouble adapting to new situations and circumstances. You can practice...
Category: Business
- Use the Force, Luke!
Dec 30, 2008
Irresistible forces can drive you forward or hold you back. If you are flexible, you can always harness their energy to help your organization be...
Category: Business
- Don Quixote, Please Don't Tilt at the Windmills!
Dec 30, 2008
Learning new concepts requires metaphors that encapsulate the key principles. We look at how rotating windmills can help organizations succeed.
Category: Business
- Learn to Be Flexible from Cellular Slime Molds
Dec 30, 2008
Oak trees are broken by the storm. Cellular slime molds just grow a stalk, attach spores to traveling animals, and move on to better territory....
Category: Business
- Ignore the Experts . . . If You Want to Make Foolish Business Mistakes
Dec 30, 2008
Experts who have been involved in what's new to you for decades will usually steer you straight. Ignore them, and you too can fall flat on your...
Category: Business
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