Archive for Business

A Quest for Excellence

by: Orrin Woodward August 24, 2010

In today’s highly competitive market there are fewer and fewer ways to separate your company and your products from the competition. All products offer the latest features and all companies offer guarantees. What makes some companies and some individuals always near the top of the pack? The biggest differentiator in the new economy is a constant [...]

Defeating the Sharks In Your Head

by: Carl Woolston August 20, 2010

I recently spent a week camping with a group of Boy Scouts at Flaming Gorge reservoir in Utah. Over the course of the week we enjoyed tons of outdoor activities, including canoeing, kayaking, river rafting, fishing, cliff diving, motor boating, and more. One of the favorite activities was being pulled behind the motor boat on [...]

3 Keys to Networking & Business Success

by: Orrin Woodward August 11, 2010

Note from CSL: In The Coming Aristocracy, Oliver DeMille lists networking marketing as one manifestation of “mini-factories.” In this article, network marketer Orrin Woodward describes how to be successful at network marketing specifically, though the principles apply to any entrepreneur, mini-factory builder, and aspiring social leader. Links throughout are for informational purposes and do not [...]

The Balance Between Innovation & Systems

by: Carl Woolston June 25, 2010

Business is constant balancing act between innovation and systemization. Consistently performing the actions that bring the best results should be the focus of any business venture. To sit on these merits and not innovate can easily become the poison that causes businesses to suffer. On the other end of the spectrum, to focus too much [...]

The Anti-Federalists, Entrepreneurship, & the Future of Freedom, Part 5: Treaty Power

by: Oliver DeMille April 16, 2010

This is part 5 of a 6-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Anti-Federalist Prediction #6: The Treaty Power Will Be Abused Prediction: The treaty power will be used to change the Constitution in ways the people don’t even know about and that benefit [...]

The Entrepreneurial Foundations of Free Society, Part 4: IQ v. EQ

by: Oliver DeMille April 2, 2010

This is part 4 of a 5-part article. Click Here to Download a Printable Version of This Article Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 5 Here For a long time America used IQ as the measure of intelligence as well as a predictor of academic and career [...]

The Entrepreneurial Foundations of Free Society, Part 3: Personality

by: Oliver DeMille April 1, 2010

This is part 3 of a 5-part article. Click Here to Download a Printable Version of This Article Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 4 Here Read Part 5 Here Add personality types to the intelligences and skills, and our realization of the need for widespread entrepreneurial talent and experience intensifies. [...]

How to Become a Producer, Part 2: Three Types of Independents

by: Oliver DeMille March 18, 2010

This is part 2 of a 4-part article. Read Part 1 Here There are three groups with long-term independence whose members are permanently free from dependence on a paycheck. The first two are made up of people supported by trust funds or equivalent, covered financially for life by wealth earned or passed down to them. [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 4: The Right Level of Complexity

by: Oliver DeMille March 12, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 4 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here The Right Level of Complexity The main criticism of simple societies is that they are often intolerant, controlling, and narrow-minded. This is an accurate and good criticism, and [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 3: Habits & Complexes

by: Oliver DeMille March 11, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 3 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift. The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles. For example, when the recession [...]