A few short reads on why the usual explanations for business trouble tend to miss the point, and why listening to your own business beats listening to everyone around it.
The standard list of failure causes — poor management, insufficient capital, fierce competition — describes symptoms, not root causes. A look at what 5-Why and fishbone analysis actually reveal, and why a diagnostic beats another dose of advice.
Read the article →Every business is surrounded by voices — investors, mentors, customers, the market — all offering an opinion. The one voice most leaders never learn to hear is the business's own. Here's what it's usually trying to say.
Read the article →Two well-meaning words have launched more businesses than any business plan ever has — and sent plenty of them into a slow-motion financial spiral. On turning encouragement into evidence before you bet everything on it.
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