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Strategy vs. Fundamentals
Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) While strategy plays a key part in the outcome of an entrepreneurial venture, the fundamentals matter a lot. Take the following parable that I got from a friend recently.

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Ten More Important “Lessons Learned” For Leaders, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Building upon another article I wrote on important lessons learned for leaders, I thought about additional important “lessons learned” for leaders that could be shared. The potential reward and return on efforts related to the strategic action to identify the “lessons learned” from our experiences merits additional thought. I found another great quote to share to confirm the value and importance of the “lessons learned” approach. The following is a quote from John Keats. “Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. Here are 10 more important "lessons learned" for leaders.
Lessons from the Gym that Can Help Your Business
It's been a difficult journey toward becoming fit, but it reminded me of a few lessons that apply equally to building a business. The following are a few of the lessons I have learned from the gym.
Location is Not Everything
Guerrillas are constantly on the lookout for important lessons from their peers. A good source of lessons is to analyze the sixty-second infomercials delivered at networking events.
Memories, Meanings and Lessons For Life
A family emergency takes Eileen on the road the memories and lessons learned. Join her as she reminisces about her childhood, the role reversal that occurs when an elderly relative needs full-time care, and the lessons we can all learn from our past and from our present.
Leadership Lessons Heard
Leadership lessons are abundant in both literature and life! The prevailing wisdom is to maximize the lessons that come from life experiences by turning them into a never-ending learning process. However, too often it is the lessons heard that serve as the practical learning model, thereby minimizing what gets practiced in successful organizations.
Five Steps to Good Strategy
Possibly more organizations fail because of bad strategy than those who fail because of no strategy. Bad strategy happens all the time to every organization and if left to its own means can destroy an organization. Bad strategy can be characterized by executives failing to face real problems or simply by lack of clarity. Learn how to craft good strategy.

Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion and Appreciation
Life's (Sales) Lessons from the Links of Ireland. Our team of merry golfers from North America reaffirmed in me the importance of Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion, and Appreciation in both golf as well as business. There are lessons all around us as to what we need to grow.
12 Marketing-Takeways from the B2B Marketing Manifesto
One of our favorite content marketing firms is Velocity Partners in London, creators of a 42 page "rant" called the B2B Marketing Manifesto. Doug Kessler, an American living over there, recently participated in a webinar with Bob Apollo, Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners and John Sweeney of DemandGen in which he shared lessons learned. I'd like to share Doug's lessons with our fans.
You Take Golf Lessons -- So Why Not Strategy Lessons?
People tend to assume that strategic thinking comes naturally, but nothing could be further from the truth. Strategy only looks easy with hindsight. So, just as you'd take lessons in golf or tennis, you should seek to actively educate and train yourself to think more strategically.
10 thing I wish I learned before 40
Life has a way of teaching us some lessons. I just wish I had learned these lessons a whole lot sooner than I did. This article is dedicated to my 3 sons. These young men are entering the real world, and I hope they learn these lessons faster than I did.
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