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Our companies are different but the Phases of our journeys are remarkably the same.  Our time and head-space fluctuates between grappling with challenges, actual work, success, insight and agony.
We are constantly inventing and reinventing ourselves (beyond Phase I and back to Phase I) - searching for best practices and fine tuning messages, methods and marketing [...]

You don’t pick your family but you do pick your business community - and they are a second family of choice.  Surround yourself with good people and they will up your game, watch your back and genuinely help you succeed.  Good people will talk about what is tough and noodle how to get through it.  [...]

Until recently I was a hardcore how-to reader, spending time inhaling nonfiction.  Why waste time on made-up stories when how-to do everything is indexed neatly in the library?  How-to books make you smarter. They break things into steps even a monkey can do! They strip away narrative and serve up facts gathered from lifetimes of [...]

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Big Ooga recently sent out a survey to find out what our members want for the coming year.  Did they want to meet more wonderful people?  Did they want to learn more skills? Did they want small group think-tanks and Mastermind groups? Did they want to create products or go to [...]