James Young
Seven Features of a Lean Startup
The founders of lean startups don’t begin with a business plan; they begin with the search for a business model. Only after quick rounds...
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James Young
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
Five ways to identify strategic growth opportunities
What will be your most promising growth opportunities? Form a small team, give them ninety days, and ask them to do the following: Blitz...
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James Young
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
Six reasons to not trust your gut
In human cognition, decision making occurs in two main ways: a fast, involuntary, unconscious manner call System 1 by Daniel Kahneman,...
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James Young
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
Twenty five traits of an entrepreneur
What are the personal traits and backgrounds of people who become successful entrepreneurs? No matter what your background is, an...
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James Young
- Mar 24, 2019
- 1 min
Seven things that make a great story
This post from Tom Albrighton draws on academic research into political storytelling, and other sources, to argue that the most effective...
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James Young
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Six features of well-designed KPIs
Key performance indicators (KPIs), also known as key success indicators (KSIs), are the suite of highest-level measures linked to an...
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James Young
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Five ways to identify strategic growth opportunities
What will be your most promising growth opportunities? Form a small team, give them ninety days, and ask them to do the following: Blitz...
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James Young
- Feb 9, 2019
- 1 min
Ten habits of highly effective boards
Richard Legion of the Association of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges (AGB) detailed the following ten habits of highly...
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James Young
- Jan 25, 2019
- 2 min
Seven ways to assess thriving in uncertainty
When interviewed, entrepreneurial managers will ask bold questions, take the initiative in the conversation, exhibit little anxiety about...
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James Young
- Jan 17, 2019
- 1 min
Four lessons that guide startup thinking
These lessons have become dogma in the startup world. Make incremental advances. Grand visions inflated the dot-com bubble, so they...
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James Young
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
Five design thinking mindsets
Be curious. Curiosity makes everything new. It invites exploration. It makes everything play. Most of all, curiosity is going to help you...
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James Young
- Jan 8, 2019
- 1 min
Nine economic principles of a rural farmer
Be happy with you’ve got. Don’t always be looking for something better. Don’t buy anything you don’t need. Don’t buy what you ought to...
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James Young
- Jan 8, 2019
- 2 min
Sixteen things to do on Monday mornings
Successful people do the following 16 things on Monday mornings. They wake up early. Successful people go to sleep at a decent hour on...
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James Young
- Dec 15, 2018
- 2 min
Twenty four ways to be a transcendent leader
Define your organization’s purpose and stick to it. Describe the mission of your organization in a way that would make your children...
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James Young
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
Twelve natural laws of business
An inspiring, strategically sound vision leads the way to greatness (especially if you write it down!). You need to give customers really...
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James Young
- Nov 30, 2018
- 1 min
Seven questions on losing creative edge
Is our current success making us self-satisfied and complacent? Are we inwardly focused? Do we punish risk takers who fail? Are creative...
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James Young
- Nov 15, 2018
- 1 min
Six leadership unifiers
To succeed as a leader, you need to unify: Your purpose. The driving ambition that shapes what you and your organization aspire to...
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James Young
- Oct 30, 2018
- 1 min
Planning works
There's a myth that planning is a concept that everyone needs, but no one uses because the world moves too fast for us to commit to a...
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James Young
- Oct 16, 2018
- 1 min
Inclusive decisiveness
A trick to great planning is to involve a wide swath of stakeholders with diverse perspectives while simultaneously being decisive about...
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James Young
- Oct 2, 2018
- 1 min
Not all good ideas are good ideas
Planning is commonly thought of as a process of inclusive decision-making about what the organization needs to do next. This is, of...
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