mixnerstrategy.com

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: August 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html

Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Hitting the wall can stall growth in an early stage growth company - or in a middle market company on the cusp of rapid growth. Geoffrey Moore calls his wall, the necessity of figuring out how to sell your high-tech product to mainstream customers, "the chasm.". Doug Tatum calls his wall, the reality of addressing that one big deal that may swamp your middle market company, "no man's land.". They're each talking about different things at differently sized companies.

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: May 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html

Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Test Your Thinking Repeatedly. Trust Analysis, Not Intuition. Silver makes the case that the statistics you use may not be serving you well. He suggests use of Bayes's Theorm, namely the relationship between prior probability, the probablility of a new event occuring based on a yes/no determination, giving, finally, posterior probability, the likely real probability. He posits the example of your girlfriend finding someone else's panties in your underwear drawer (Silver, 245).

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: January 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Case: Four Big Company Disruptions. Anthony tells four stories about how bigger businesses are using longer term disruptions to grow their business (Anthony, Garage. Syngenta mimicked eighties strategies of selling smaller portions of such things as toothpaste and shampoo to poor folks by devising a method of selling small holding farmers in Africa small unit doses of insecticides for application using existing sprayers. Retailers advise farmers on which products to use w...

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: February 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html

Thursday, February 28, 2013. Six Months to Solve Hunger. The Sternins were invited by the Hanoi government to visit Vietnam in 1990. They were experts at making children flourish. The international community was about to stop food programs in Vietnam. As the programs ended, famine set in. The government - most of it, anyway - wanted a solution. The folks that opposed the Sternin's presence gave them a time limit: fix our famine in six months, or leave (Rosenberg). Plump, healthy kids. Pacioli Creates Acc...

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: April 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.html

Thursday, April 18, 2013. The Lean Entrepreneur's Work to Do. Cooper and Vlaskovits have an entire, fleshed-out action plan for first steps for the entrepreneur. Here are the key points (Cooper, 233):. Is there a solvable problem. A need - a pain - that a customer has)? Is the solution tenable? Talk with your advisory board about solutions. Define your Minimally Viable Product. Post MVP Process: Activated to Satisfied; Satisfied to Passionate; Whole Product. Turn it into a business. Sunday, April 14, 2013.

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: Leveraging Big Databases

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2014/03/leveraging-big-databases.html

Sunday, March 9, 2014. How does one plus one exceed two? Thompson points out that big data in the form of IBM's Watson handily defeats a mere human chess master. However, when you take a simpler program - a database of past chess moves readily available for relatively small dollars - and combine it with a good but not great chess player, Watson suddenly isn't the clear winner. Simple man plus simple machine has a chance against super-machine. That's the point (Thompson, 285). Seems doable, doesn't it?

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: March 2013

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html

Saturday, March 30, 2013. Ariely makes the point that all folks will do some things wrong. To create a culture of doing things right, talk about it (Ariely). Having a planning meeting? Make it a point to talk about how we do things right in this organization. We focus on the good; we expect the good. Folks'll still make mistakes, of course. When you talk about mistakes - doing the wrong thing - they're likely to make fewer mistakes. Who starts the discussion? The CEO, the manager, the person in charge.

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: March 2014

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html

Monday, March 17, 2014. Reich, in assessing Kennedy's legacy quotes Kennedy's diary: "The best politician is the man who does not think too much of the political consequences of his every act. (Reich, 36). Continuing, Kennedy quotes many of his heroes:. Kennedy was deciding what kind of politician he was going to be. These quotes formed a basis of his thoughts. Reich, Scott D. The Power of Citizenship. Why John F. Kennedy matters to a new generation. Benbella Books. 2013. Amazon. Sunday, March 9, 2014.

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: Consequences of Action

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2014/03/consequences-of-actione.html

Monday, March 17, 2014. Reich, in assessing Kennedy's legacy quotes Kennedy's diary: "The best politician is the man who does not think too much of the political consequences of his every act. (Reich, 36). Continuing, Kennedy quotes many of his heroes:. Kennedy was deciding what kind of politician he was going to be. These quotes formed a basis of his thoughts. Reich, Scott D. The Power of Citizenship. Why John F. Kennedy matters to a new generation. Benbella Books. 2013. Amazon. Rigor - or Rigor Mortis?

mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com

JACK MIXNER STRATEGY: Where Sociability Comes From

http://mixnerstrategy.blogspot.com/2014/03/where-sociability-comes-from.html

Friday, March 7, 2014. Where Sociability Comes From. Creating ways to keep us connected is therefore the central problem of mammalian evolution. The next time that you posit that social media in all its ramifications is a fad of some sort, reconsider. We're wired to be social from birth. The newer forms of sociability just build upon what it means to be human, on how our brains come pre-wired. Lieberman, Mathew D. Social. Why our brains are wired to connect. Crown Publishers. 2013.