SKMurphy’s Book Club for Business Impact Inspires You To Take Action

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A special announcement for our valued readers SKMurphy introduces a new service, Book Club for Business Impact. This is a call-in virtual discussion group that leverages the best ideas from business experts, best-selling authors, and thought leaders. Listen to the live action group review and discuss prominent books and articles that will inspire you to […]

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You Need to Be a Little Crazy by Barry Moltz

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Call-in Book Review  Recorded on Wednesday, June 8, 2011Massimo Paolini, Miles Kehoe, Dorai Thodla, and Sean Murphy recap Barry Moltz’s “You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business”. They share how they personally found the courage to start their businesses and their desire to make “working for yourself”

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Webinar: Practical Insights From “Back of The Napkin” May 11

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Webinar: Practical Insights From “Back of The Napkin” May 11 Whether it’s in a conversation with your team, with prospects, partners, or customers, the ability to sketch and to encourage them to collaborate on a sketch of the issue that you are discussion can be very helpful. It can be on a white board in

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Tom Van Vleck’s “3 Questions” Complement Root Cause Analysis

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Tom Van Vleck has  a great collection of software engineering stories on his site. One particularly good article is “Three Questions For Each Bug That You Find” which offers the following key observation: The key idea behind these questions is that every bug is a symptom of an underlying process. You have to treat the

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Managing Oneself

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On May 25, 2011, Howard Dernehl, Moe Arnaiz,  Charles Baugh and Sean Murphy recap Drucker’s article “Managing Oneself” followed by examples of how they have incorporated how they learn and their strengths into their business.     “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker This short seminal article by Peter Drucker tells us that we must all

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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

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Call-in Book Review recorded on May 11, 2011 Charles Baugh, Terry Frazier and Sean Murphy recap Dan Roams’ “Back of the Napkin” followed by examples of how they have incorporated informal drawings into our business communication and collaboration. View the recorded session Buy NOW The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with

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Signed up for Startup Lessons Learned Conference

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Hope to see you on Monday, May 23, 2011 in San Francisco, CA for the Second Startup Lessons Learned conference. The day-long event will feature a mix of panels and talks focused on the key challenges and issues that technical and market-facing people at startups need to understand in order to succeed in building successful

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Georgi Dagnall on Steve Blank’s Visit to April Bootstrapper Breakfast

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After every Bootstrapper Breakfast® we E-mail all of the participants and ask them for “one thing you learned at the breakfast.” Georgi Dagnall left a nice comment after Steve Blank visited on Friday (I have added some links for context) Sean suggested that I read the book, Four Steps to the Epiphany written by Steve

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