The Art of Losing
The Art of Losing You can lose twice. The second loss is the dangerous one. You have just lost one of the biggest tennis matches of your life. Your opponent …
AI May Make the Small Business Bigger
AI May Make the Small Business Bigger The winning model may be AI + more people—not AI instead of people Most discussion about AI and jobs starts with the same …
The Small Business Moat is Changing
The Small Business Moat is Changing When everyone can buy similar intelligence, what becomes difficult to copy? For decades, competitive advantage came from capital, scale, distribution, technology and headcount. AI …
IS THERE A MARKET FOR THE TECHNOLOGY? (2026 Edition)
IS THERE A MARKET FOR THE TECHNOLOGY? When I originally wrote “Is There a Potential Market for the Technology?”, market research was largely a process of finding information—often slowly and …
EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY FOR OPPORTUNITY (2026 Edition)
I originally wrote “Evaluating Technology for Opportunity” for Managing Technology for Profit: A Small Business Guide as a practical framework for identifying, evaluating and acquiring technology-based business opportunities. The original …
COMPETING IN 2026
I originally wrote “Competing in the ’90s – Impact of Technology” for Managing Technology for Profit: A Small Business Guide while leading an internal Fortune 500 corporate venture team. Our …
The Real AI Contest
The real contest isn’t humans versus AI. It’s concentrated versus distributed power. Daron Acemoglu is about as close as economics gets to a rock star. Still only 58, the MIT …
Executives Know How to Manage Stress. Adversity Is Different.
AI won’t test your stress tolerance. It will test your ability to adapt. We have spent decades teaching executives to manage stress. We may have mistaken that for knowing how …
Seek First To Understand Before Being Understood
We Don’t All Think the Same President Trump’s recent frustration with Iran reflects a challenge that has confounded every U.S. administration since the 1979 Islamic Revolution: the assumption that Iran’s …
Moving from Just in Time to Just in Case
A New Investment Regime? For more than three decades, investors benefited from an economic model built on globalization, efficiency and ever-lower costs. Companies optimized supply chains through just-in-time manufacturing, sourcing …