Monthly Archives: September 2004

ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS EVOLUTION

Posted on September 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

(The final* instalment of excerpts from the upcoming book Natural Enterprise. ) The hardest part of entrepreneurship is getting the business up and running. Perhaps the second hardest is deciding when to let it go. Consultants will tell you every … Continue reading →

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PITCH LOCK: AN INNOVATION WAITING TO BE EXPLOITED?

Posted on September 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Unless you’re a DJ, or have one of those high-end digital music players, mixers, or mixing software tools (and actually read the instruction book) you probably don’t know what Pitch Lock is. Basically, it’s a function that allows you to … Continue reading →

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CLAY CHRISTENSEN ON INNOVATION

Posted on September 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Gartner Group has a wonderful new online interview with Clay Christensen, one of the few consultants out there wisely focused on innovation. Here are some of the highlights: For those who haven’t read The Innovator’s Dilemma or The Innovator’s Solution, … Continue reading →

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THE REAL ISSUES, AND WHY NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THEM

Posted on September 7, 2004 by Dave Pollard

As my regular readers know, this weblog is just a means to an end. The ‘end’ is a number of things: Getting people aware of and knowledgeable about and energized about the really important issues, not the ones they’re spoon-fed … Continue reading →

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES ON EARTH

Posted on September 6, 2004 by Dave Pollard

An award-winning PBS documentariy series, The Living Edens, portrayed several of the last remaining places on Earth of extraordinary natural beauty. Many of the most populated areas of our planet were once places of extraordinary beauty, but they have been … Continue reading →

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AMSTERDAM

Posted on September 5, 2004 by Dave Pollard

I’ve been writing some quick stories, strictly to practice crafting realistic dialogue. Dialogue is a critical aspect of my upcoming novel — it has to be believable or the novel will suffer. Most of these exercises are just fragments, but … Continue reading →

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Awfully Personal Question for September 4, 2004

Posted on September 4, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Welcome to That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit better. It’s a … Continue reading →

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WHY SERVICE STINKS: CORPORATE APARTHEID

Posted on September 4, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Some articles have a long shelf life. Case in point: This BusinessWeek cover story from four years ago called Why Service Stinks. Bottom line is that, like everything else in the US, and to a lesser (but growing) extent elsewhere … Continue reading →

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NATURAL ENTERPRISE: FILLING AN UNMET NEED

Posted on September 3, 2004 by Dave Pollard

(Fourteenth of fifteen* instalments of the upcoming book Natural Enterprise. ) “Find a need and fill it”. I have heard this quote from no fewer than a dozen successful business leaders. Ted Rogers, son of the inventor of the alternating-current … Continue reading →

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TABLE TALK

Posted on September 2, 2004 by Dave Pollard

One of the reasons to subscribe to Salon Premium — besides the fact it’s a well written, progressive publication, is the ability to participate in Salon’s very literate discussion forums, called Table Talk. Just to give you a flavour for … Continue reading →

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