by Paul Lepa | Oct 13, 2011 | Growing the Business
“Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.” Ok – so it’s quite a pessimistic view but non- the- less interesting From http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/10/7-things-happen-to-you-when-you-are-completely-honest/...
by Paul Lepa | Oct 11, 2011 | Growing the Business
Last week I have been analyzing our company numbers, cash-flow, on hand projects and strengths and weaknesses. I also analyzed my personal goals, energy available, time, stress level. At the end of all this, I decided to make some drastic changes to RedStores.com....
by Paul Lepa | Oct 3, 2011 | Insights
“You are either part of the solution, or you are part of a problem.” For sure this saying it not by me, but I like this saying. The long take on this, is that you are either making a difference and helping solve problems and issues, or you are adding to...
by Paul Lepa | Oct 1, 2011 | Growing the Business
If you some my previous post, you know that last week I have been in the ‘firefighting’ quadrant of things, so I haven’t had time to appreciate and enjoy the things we have accomplished. Today is Sunday. I spend last few days going through my to do list (220...
by Paul Lepa | Oct 1, 2011 | Growing the Business
Ok – for the programmers out there, the ! means NOT – so the title should be NOT easy week. So, one of purpose of this blog to share the good, the bad and the ugly in how make things go. This week was a tough week. One of my big issues that I have...
by Paul Lepa | Sep 29, 2011 | Insights
“Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Paul Lepa | Sep 25, 2011 | Growing the Business
Intense week last week. I ended up drowning in a huge number of tasks coming at me. The net effect was that it was difficult to focus on the big things because some many other things where buzzing in my head. So, by chance,...
by Paul Lepa | Sep 20, 2011 | Growing the Business
I’m a big fan of Freekonomics, and love the book and how its laid out – with Theory interwove with real examples. And so, when I saw that Freekonomics blog recommended this book, I downloaded it. So, let me say, two chapters into it, and it’s a...
by Paul Lepa | Sep 18, 2011 | Growing the Business
I was asked by Kushi to provide them with a testimonial for my experience at the institute. Here is my story: The KUSHI story – learning to eat before you can run. The Kushi story for my starts not with my health but about growing my business. I own...
by Paul Lepa | Sep 17, 2011 | Growing the Business
I spent the week getting deep into the business controls in place – budgets, approvals, workflows and business processes. As I did that, I realized that many of the issues that I am facing today is because things I assigned in the past didn’t get done. And so, as I...
