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Why is it that corporate giants are so often guilty of myopic thinking?

Over the last week I was hit in the head with the fact that some companies truly don't want my business.

Example #1:

My sister is a young, single woman, who recently moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to pursue her dream career in musical theater. She is about six hours away from home, and living on her own. Up until last week, her only real way of communicating with the homefront was her cellular phone. She had been a U.S. Cel… Continue

The year was 1882 and Phoebe Anne Moses, a poor farm girl from Ohio, was traveling with her husband, Frank Butler, as he performed on the Vaudeville stage. He and his partner, John Graham, had an act that they called America's Own Rifle Team and Champion All Around Shots. Although she had proven to be quite the expert hunter, earning her living by shooting game birds for the local grocery back in Ohio, she never stepped foot on the stage. Phoebe was content to watch and support her husban… Continue

You know you are starting to think like an entreprenuer when you can't read a children's book to your kids without thinking about the business implications of the storyline.

One of my four-year-old son's favorite books is the classic Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. Written in 1939, this book tells the tale of a successful steam shovel owner-operator who has made a good living most of his life by working on the major projects that built America's infrastructure-… Continue