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  • Before Your Harvest Unexpectedly Slows Down, Search for the Next Generation of Business Models
    When should you start on another generation of business model innovation? This article uses an example from the technology industry to show that an early start is essential, long before your current business model starts to run out of steam.

    Date of Article: 20Nov2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Life Improves at 60
    We are used to thinking about the passage of time as being the equivalent of having our lives go downhill. But time can instead be our friend, helping us achieve what we could never do before.
    Date of Article: 05Jun2008
    Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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  • What's the Potential for Your Life?
    If you focus on creating 2,000 percent solutions, you can lead a longer, happier, and more affluent life. This article explores some of the dimensions.
    Date of Article: 04Jun2008
    Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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  • How Well Will You Live?
    Life can change in a minute. How will you cope if current problems become worse?
    Date of Article: 22Apr2008
    Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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  • Unearth Vast New Sources of Profits Beneath Your Feet
    Even tradition-bound industries contain the potential to be much more successful when they follow profitable paths to business model innovation. The article contains an extended example of how one company did this.
    Date of Article: 15Apr2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Be Ready for Much Tougher New Business Models
    Competition is shifting towards large business model changes that make earning a profit more and more difficult. In the process, many traditional management skills are becoming less important. Are you ready for the shift?
    Date of Article: 11Apr2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Seek the Benefits of Coaching or Teaching Children
    Teaching or coaching children will develop your management skill faster than any other experience you can have. Keep it fun and you'll succeed. Remember that lesson for success with adults, as well.
    Date of Article: 22Mar2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Drive Growth with the Windmills of Your Mind
    Breakthrough solutions are much more valuable than seeking incremental improvements in operations. Combine those breakthroughs with powerful external forces, and the growth benefits can be like being propelled into space aboard a powerful rocket.
    Date of Article: 21Jan2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Problems Caused by Irresistible Forces: Causes and Solutions
    Irresistible forces are only a problem because we have bad thinking habits about how to relate to the forces. This article describes what irresistible forces are and encourages readers to identify their bad thinking habits and eliminate those habits.
    Date of Article: 18Jan2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Helpful Metaphors for Achieving Irresistible Growth
    Most organizations do well when the market environment is gentle. But let the harsh winds of change arrive, and the organization huddles to avoid their influence. The irresistible growth organization will make good use of all environments. This article provides two metaphors to explain how that result can be accomplished.
    Date of Article: 17Jan2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • Join Forces: Don't Fight the Irresistible
    Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
    Date of Article: 15Jan2008
    Category: Business - General
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  • What New Uses and Adjustments Will Delight Users of Your Offerings?
    Offerings are often designed inside the imaginary head of an engineer, technician, or other technical person. The real world is often quite different than expected. Look to the problems and solutions that are already going on to find ways to improve your offerings and usage.
    Date of Article: 22Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Who Else Needs Your Products or Services?
    One of the fastest ways to grow profits is to find new classes of customers for your offerings. This article describes a process and questions you can use to unearth such new profitable prospects.
    Date of Article: 21Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Expand Sales by Reducing the Cost to Use Your Offering
    Customer costs begin with the price you charge for your offering. While making your operating costs a little lower, you may be greatly increasing your customer's costs . . . making it expensive to deal with you. Cut your customer's costs, and you'll have more customers.
    Date of Article: 19Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Choose the Right Offerings to Expand How Much Value You Add
    In thinking about serving customers or beneficiaries better, it's important to appreciate the operational implications for costs of adding new offerings. This article contains a quantitative example of how choice of offerings can help or hurt operating efficiency.
    Date of Article: 13Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Choose the Right Offerings to Add Profits
    Mix of offerings is more important to profitability than many business people realize. Mix affects sales volume, profit contribution, and costs of operations and overhead. This article explains how to look at optimizing the combination of these factors in making mix changes.
    Date of Article: 12Dec2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Deliver 20 Times More Nonprofit Benefits with the Same Resources, Time, and Effort
    Nonprofit organizations can deliver more benefits to beneficiaries when they improve their cost effectiveness in serving more beneficiaries by reducing both the costs to the organization and to the beneficiaries. This article has three examples of changing a nonprofit organization's business model to show how this can be accomplished.
    Date of Article: 22Nov2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Unleash More Profits with Business Model Innovation
    Business model innovation can make a business more or less profitable by changing to whom, what, and where offerings are provided in the search for much larger volume of sales. This article shows the opportunities and pitfalls of these alternatives.
    Date of Article: 21Nov2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Reach Best Seller Reading Levels by Taking the Road Less Traveled
    Many writers think that only the quality of their writing matters in creating a best seller. But applying the 2,000 percent solution process can exponentially expand their readership beyond what writing alone can accomplish. This article describes how anyone can become a business book writer who achieves the same reading levels as those with best sellers.
    Date of Article: 16Nov2007
    Category: Writing & Speaking
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  • Make One Plus One Equal 400 Times More Profits
    Choosing to combine ways to add 20 times more revenues and reduce costs by 96 percent can create 400 times more earnings for a company while an individual 2,000 percent solution may not even grow earnings by 20 times. This article explains why choice of paired 2,000 percent solutions to create is an essential element of a successful business strategy.
    Date of Article: 14Nov2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Act Now to Escape Being Burned by the Hot Tin Roof of Complacency
    Complacency makes you satisfied with where you are and what you are doing. That's fine if you are sentenced to life imprisonment, but it's a bad mental state if you operate in a competitive business world. This article shows you how to shake off complacency and regularly deliver valuable breakthroughs that will make your organization more effective and forward looking.
    Date of Article: 13Nov2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Pave an Unstoppable Path to Breakthrough Success
    Unless you prepare a sound roadbed, the road you lay will soon become unusable. Preparation for creating breakthroughs teaches the same lesson: Getting organized in the right way determines your success. In addition, preparation builds confidence that you will succeed . . . helping create the breakthrough.
    Date of Article: 29Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Leading Breakthroughs
    Teams make most improvements. This article looks at how you can go from making ordinary improvements into accomplishing breakthrough, exponential progress by selecting the right team and leader.
    Date of Article: 23Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Turn Your Dreams of Perfection into Real Joy
    Daydreaming is fun, but living those daydreams is infinitely better. This article looks at how to turn your dreams of perfection into everyday joy of having that perfection.
    Date of Article: 18Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Conduct Your Organization in Ideal Ways to Make Beautiful Music
    Near-perfect performances are delivered by organizations all of the times. When we look closely at those examples, we can distill principles that can be used to guide near-perfect performances by our organization. Combine these principles into a new way of operating, and you'll soon have a breakthrough in effectiveness. This article shares two examples of how these breakthroughs can be accomplished.
    Date of Article: 13Oct2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Imagine Ultimate Perfection to Help Shrink Your Work Week to Two Hours
    If you could accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources, you could finish your current job in two hours a week. Does that strike your fancy? If so, the key step in finding such productivity breakthroughs is identifying the maximum result that can be achieved with reasonable risk and resources, far beyond merely exceeding tomorrow’s best practices. This essay shows you how to identify that ideal maximum result.
    Date of Article: 20Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Be Aware of Where You Stand to Learn How to Accomplish 20 Times More
    Many bad habits that harm performance can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This essay explains how to create a universal understanding of how to use measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
    Date of Article: 16Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Act Now to Accomplish 20 Times More!
    Danger from inaction is usually much greater than the danger from action, yet many people act as though the reverse is usually true. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain benefits from needed rapid action.
    Date of Article: 14Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Eliminate Steps, Simplify, and Automate Work Processes to Accomplish 20 Times More
    Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify and automate what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
    Date of Article: 13Sep2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Are Your Words Failing to Help You Accomplish 20 Times More Improvements?
    Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall, the most harmful bad habit you can have for delaying improvements. This article explains how you can be sure you are being understood.
    Date of Article: 20Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Identify Harmful Traditions that Keep You from Accomplishing 20 Times More
    This article examines the most powerful cause of complacency: the unquestioning certainty that nothing will change or should be changed. That certainty is encouraged by peaceful repetition over many years. You will learn how to identify when tradition should be challenged and abandoned for the good of the organization.
    Date of Article: 13Aug2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Focus on Fast Ways to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    Lord Keynes once pointed at that in the long run we are all dead. Achieving more is most beneficial when it occurs rapidly. This article contains an example of how this principle might be applied by a publisher to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
    Date of Article: 20Jul2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Avoid Complacency to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    After you achieve a 2,000 percent solution, complacency can become a problem. This article looks at creating more beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. Serving this wider, more successful population will, in turn, continually open up more ways to achieve additional exponential gains.
    Date of Article: 27Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Repeatedly Focus on Improvements
    This articler develops ways to create mutually beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. In this chapter, we see how repetition of process improvements steps builds a powerful new habit that can be the foundation for continually expanding exponential success.
    Date of Article: 26Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Focus on the Best Measures
    Measurement helps you achieve the most when focused on your organization’s most important processes and most valuable opportunities. This essay shows you how to decide where to apply measurements, what to measure, and how to use measurements to achieve exponential success.
    Date of Article: 19Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Start by Understanding the Importance of Measuring Performance
    The losses caused by bad habits (stalls) that prevent rapid progress by accomplishing 20 times as much with the same time and effort can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This article explains how to create a universal understanding of designing and using measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
    Date of Article: 16Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Hesitate to Procrastinate and Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    When danger from action is much greater than the danger from inaction, organizations are wise to take time to assess the situation before acting. Unfortunately, the reverse is usually true. Many organizations act as though their lives are on the line over situations where virtually any action will be rewarded compared to inaction. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain more benefits.
    Date of Article: 15Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Obliterate Bureaucracy to Speed Up Improvements by 20 Times
    Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
    Date of Article: 14Jun2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Get Past Your Disbelief in New Possibilities to Break Through to Exponential Improvements
    People usually underestimate the potential value of the most important new information, technology, and ways of operating. This error occurs because the new information or resource unexpectedly makes untrue what has been undeniably true in the past. This essay looks at ways to seize advantages by appreciating the importance of new factors sooner than other people do.
    Date of Article: 20May2007
    Category: Business - General
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  • Overcome Harmful Traditions That Delay Improvements
    Age-old traditions cause us to develop the most deeply ingrained habits. Even when conditions change so that these traditions are harmful, most people will keep following the traditions anyway. In this article, you find out how to identify where traditions are harmful and how to establish helpful new traditions that reinforce helpful directions.
    Date of Article: 19May2007
    Category: Business - General
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