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Entropy is the thing that eventually kills an old business. Even giants fall to entropy. Hostess fell to entropy!

So what is it?

In physics, we say that in a closed system, entropy always increases. If you add some hot water to cold water, there will be a place where water is hot and places where water is cold. Eventually they'll just blend to a single temperature. Add cream to coffee---they'll blend together becoming inseparable. You cannot ...
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Monday is here. We are in the final third of this month. Are you spending today doing something that matters or are you filling time and avoiding the things that could actually improve your business?

Spend Monday doing things that make a permanent improvement---at least until entropy breaks them down----and you'll finish this month better than you thought you would.

Like what?

There are items on the "to do" list that have been there for a long time. ...
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If you're busy being busy you are not producing.

Here's what I shipped this week:

One business has blasted off after getting a couple hours of advice from TeachU (Several thousands in sales!)
One business has completely turned around! After losing a huge amount of money, this business has made it to the black this month!
One executive client delivered his finest speech/presentation ever (his words) thanks to a presentation developed be ChrisReich.org
One doctor has a very interesting ...
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So many stale businesses have something about "continuous improvement" in their mission statements that the expression no longer has meaning.

If your business talks continuous improvement, why is changed resisted?

Why are new ideas met with zero enthusiasm?

Why is any kind of creative thinking treated as bothersome?

Why is there no collective efforts at real innovation?

If your business isn't practicing its e-mail slogan, stop saying it. Not doing what you claim to do hurts the business ...
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You have heard of course that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. Of the billions and billions that have fallen to earth, no snowflake has ever been exactly duplicated.

That seems pretty remarkable until you think about complexity.

A single snowflake is made of billions and billions of atoms. There's some carbon, some water, some nitrogen and a few other elements in there as well. It's pretty tough to get billions and billions of anything to line ...
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