Welcome: Action Trumps Everything

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Paul B Brown

Welcome to our work in progress, one we hope you will contribute to! Babson invites all alumni and their networks of friends to download the Action Trumps Everything book for free, and add it to your e-reader or read it on your computer.  We call this a work in progress because we like to practice ...continue reading...

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Sabi Sushi – The Restaurant Without a Restaurant

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Charlie Kiefer

Dear ATE, I'm a member of the Sabi Sushi team, a finalist at this year's Mass Challenge.  Since the accelerator program, the company has made a huge pivot, centered around action, and I wanted to share our story with you. When I was watching the video of your presentation, and started reading your book "Action Trumps Everything", it seemed to describe ...continue reading...

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JobTacToe – A Story of CreAction – Part 5

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Charlie Kiefer

A random installment in the JobTacToe tale... Our premise for JobTacToe was predicated on Michael's mailing list of 65,000 job seekers. We got such a positive initial response from them that we created the project. What we didn't think through (and is blindingly obvious in hindsight) is that a mailing list of job seekers becomes stale ...continue reading...

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And the subtitle is…you decide

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Paul B Brown

We are big believers in taking advantage of our friends' expertise. So, we need your help, once again. The folks at Harvard Business Review Press are eager to design the cover of our book and to do that, we need to (finally) decide on the subtitle. The title is locked.  It will be Just Start. And while we ...continue reading...

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Entrepreneurial Improvisation

Posted on June 25, 2011 by admin

Dear ATE Folks: Thank you for the wonderful experience at the recent sessions. I always seek ideas and ways of thinking that are new and inspiring. I was struck by the UHaul example on the second day. It is entirely possible that many of the courses of action that we came up with might have worked even ...continue reading...

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Titles, sub-titles and you

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Paul B Brown

“But why are you changing the title?” We got that question in several difference forms, after our last post saying we were looking for a new sub-title for the updated version of our book. The short answer is our publisher, Harvard Business Review Press (nee Harvard Business School Press) wants to make it clear to the world at ...continue reading...

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Your chance to play editor

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Paul B Brown

We need your help. We are working on a completely revised version of our book that will be published by Harvard Business Review Press. We have a title we like--Just Start--but we are struggling with the subtitle. The following will give you an idea of the things we are thinking of: Mastering Uncertainty and Creating the Future. Master Uncertainty and ...continue reading...

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We’ll be right back

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Paul B Brown

As some of you know, we have been working diligently--I would have said like a dog, but have ever actually seen a dog work; mine sleeps a lot--to create a radically new version of our book Action Trumps Everything.  (It will be published by Harvard Business Review Press.) All this work, unfortunately, has taken time away from ...continue reading...

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Acceptable loss (nee affordable loss.) Please vote early (and often.)

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Paul B Brown

We need your help. As we said from the beginning of both the book (Action Trumps Everything) and the blog, are very much a work in progress. Here's today's case in point.  We have talked at length about how much you should put at risk in starting a new venture and, up until now (not surprisingly) we have ...continue reading...

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The Rapture and Desire

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Paul B Brown

If you are reading this, the world hasn't ended. The folks who said the Rapture was coming, said it would happen today and as of now, at least, my extremely mortal soul is still here. But thinking about the Rapture got me thinking about desire and how important it is to creating anything new. There are four “big ...continue reading...

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Pity, please, the New York Yankees. They needed to read our book.

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Paul B Brown

The big story in New York sports this morning involves Jorge Posada, the border-line Hall of  Fame catcher who is fading rapidly before our eyes. The Yankees, who were concerned about Posada's age--he'll be 40 in a few months--turned Posada into a full-time designated hitter (DH) this year and the move is not going well.  He is ...continue reading...

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