Issue #12 - November 3, 2004

> Management

Improving Enterprise Productivity
For right answers you need to ask the right questions

In my experience as a CEO and a management consultant, I have found that asking the right questions is often 90% of getting to the right answers. Further, I think that many of the questions that are being asked about cost cutting and productivity are not going to get us to the right answers. That is because it is not just about manufacturing or production; it is about fulfilling customer needs and wants in such a way as to produce a profit.

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Market Research: A Must for the Entrepreneur
Quantify the assumptions about your market

-- by Anand Joshi

So you’ve got a great idea… you know you have the best solution in the world, and you believe it's just a matter of time before you start counting millions… so you set up a business and approach investors for funding only to be turned down for lack of market… you feel dejected and depressed, but slowly accept the reality and then eventually get on with your life.

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Financial Lessons for CEO's: 9 & 10
Final lessons for CEO's and business owners

-- by Helen Dutton, A vision of Your Own, LLC, Weare, NH

In this last installment of The Top 10 List of What Business Owners Need to Know about Finance, I cover the human side of finance. While your financial records are about the numbers, the people involved can make or break your business.

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Chicken, Fox & Grain Puzzle
Today's solution to a classic problem

A farmer is standing on one bank of a river, with a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. He needs to get to the other side of the river, taking the fox, the chicken, and the grain with him.

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