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Making Tough Decisions
Categories: Efficience
Tags: business, Business Decisions, Efficience, Entrepreneur, Hiring, Strengths
On my entrepreneurial path, I have realized many things come down to a few key decisions. Sometimes they are very tough decisions that can have a significant impact on people’s lives. This is what being an entrepreneur and leader of a company is all about. It is about making the big decisions that will either lead you to your success or demise. The demise part comes by not acting and putting off these tough decisions that need to be made.

These decisions can come in the form of people that should or shouldn’t be with your company, products or services that you should or shouldn’t have, or in the strategic direction of your company.

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Solving the World’s Problems with Abundance
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Abundance, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, business, Business Technology, Change, Connecting, Creativity, Dean Kamen, Efficience, Motivation, Peter Diamandis, Potential, Technology, Vertical Farms
Let’s continue our discussion from last week’s blog. How does Abundance solve the future problems that seem to loom before us like population growth, water needs, hunger, and power?

Abundance Thinking holds the understanding that we have the capability to solve our pains with the technologies we have already created. Those technologies are at such a level that the continued connectivity of each of them creates exponential opportunities for solving all the issues of the day and the problems out ahead of us.

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Time Has Limitations, But You Don’t!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: business, Business Growth, Business Technology, Creativity, Efficience, Entrepreneur, Maximizer, Potential, Scalability, Software, time management
Being an entrepreneur, I have a mind set to create something better and to “maximize” the future. One of the things that I like to maximize is time. The problem with that is time is not scalable; it cannot be expanded with increased use. What do we do then? Since you and I can’t change the fact that we all have 24 hours to utilize in a day, we need to approach it differently.

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STOP Doing It!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: business, Business Decisions, Business Growth, Decisions, Entrepreneur, event management, Jim Collins, Life/Work Balance, Marshall Goldsmith, strategic planning, time management

So much of what we do in business is about the things we need to get done. I need to write a report. I need to send e-mails to my clients. I need to create a budget. I need to put a plan together for the next quarterly meeting. On and on it goes with stuff we need to do in order to make progress in our business. Nothing is wrong with this, especially when it creates progress. Progress has been determined to be the number one motivator of both business owners and employees.

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4 Billion New Customers!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Apps, business, Business Growth, Business Technology, Cell Phones, Connecting, Entrepreneur, India, Marc Andreessen, Mobile Technology, Ray Kurzweil, Sluice, Software, Technology
Think about that! If you had access to 4 billion customers, how would that impact your marketing, your strategy, your vision, your opportunities, and your profit potential? Well it’s coming, and I see it happening right before my eyes.

Let me back up for a moment and give you some perspective. As I write this, I am at my office in Pondicherry, India. I started Efficience with my partners April and Rich back in 2004 and came to India shortly after to set up the office. We started with one full time team member and one intern and then quickly added five more. We have now grown to 40 bright, enthusiastic, hardworking men and women.

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Creating a Jobs Economy
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Apple, business, Business Growth, business recession, capital gains, capital gains tax, Change, Decisions, Economy, Entrepreneur, Investing, Jobs, policy, Profitability, recession, regulations
Our nation is struggling to create jobs. You’ve likely heard that regulations have limited businesses’ capital, making it difficult for them to hire or expand. Have you wondered what types of changes to these regulations would help this economy create more jobs? Let’s discuss a few key changes that have worked in the past to encourage companies to grow and hire more people.

Many regulations create a big problem for the economy. Which regulations and policies are stopping us from creating the jobs that we are missing? Amity Shlaes writes an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, Three Policies That Gave Us the Jobs Economy.”

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The Mobile Future is Right Before Our Eyes!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Apple, Apps, Bill Gates, business, Business Growth, Business Technology, Cell Phones, Change, Communication, Connecting, Facebook, iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, market growth, Mary Meeker, Mobile Technology, Mobile Usage, Pandora, Sharing Information, Social Media, Square, steve jobs, Tablets, Technology, Twitter
Last week, I traveled to Dallas, TX for a guys’ weekend with my son Tony, his close friend Steven, and my brother Mark. While there, we also attended the Bills vs. Cowboys football game. Having grown up in Rochester, NY, I am a Bills fan, which is often difficult to endure. That weekend was no exception. Even after a great start to the season, the Bills lost 44 to 7. Other than that, we had a great time, and the Cowboys’ stadium is off the charts!

You seem to open your eyes more to what is around you when you’re in a new environment, so being a bit more observant, I watched the nonstop mobile usage around me. These observations made me want to share some recent research that has been released. Based on the research and my own thoughts, mobile devices are becoming a powerful force in our lives.

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How Do You Get Great Ideas?
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Board Meeting, business, Business Decisions, Business Growth, Collective Intelligence, Communication, Creating Solutions, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Great Ideas, Group Interaction, Groups, Ideas, Meetings, team building
Many of us out there hold a strong aversion and distaste for meetings. You have heard it before, or possibly even said it yourself: “We do nothing but have meetings around here, so how am I to get any work done?” Why do we have such negative feelings in regards to getting a group of people together to discuss issues and create solutions to move forward?

I believe strongly in the power of the group and think it is vital to bring people together to create the best ideas. If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you have seen me discuss my belief in collective intelligence, an ideal I trust in so much that I even started a mutual fund managed around the philosophy.

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Three Things Scrooge Would Say About Our Business
Categories: Efficience
Tags: business, Business Decisions, Business Growth, Cash Flow, Christmas, Creating Value, Decisions, Giving, Grinch, Holidays, Life/Work Balance, Operations Management, Personal Growth, Scrooge, time management
As we approach Christmas and get to spend more time with our family and friends in a spirited, colorful environment full of lights, we open our hearts and our pocket books to give and share what we have with others. While I cannot speak for you, it makes me feel good to give to others. When it is done with sincerity, I feel it has that effect similar to when the Grinch’s heart grows three sizes. It changed him. I look to the holidays to have that growing heart experience and hope the holidays have the same effect on you.

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3 Keys to Business Greatness!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: 10xer, BHAG, business, Discipline, Empirical, Entrepreneur, Goals, Great by Choice, information revolution, Jim Collins, market growth, New Years, Paranoid, Peter Drucker, strategic planning, strategy
If you asked me the business authors out there who I think provide the most value, I would have to say Jim Collins and Peter Drucker.

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