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Opinion

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  • Adam Hughes
  • December 16, 2005
Lasday: Every Firm Needs A 'Hit Squad'

In nearly every strata of Gulf Coast human achievement - the arts, medical, community banking, law, real estate – you can find high-energy, high profit, ego-centric, corporate "ALL STARS" that produce innovative results. Call them what you will: the Development Team, the Futurists, the Brain Trust, the Think Tank or perhaps the A-Team.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • December 5, 2005
Thomas Sowell: The Lure of the Free Lunch

I first became aware of the law of gravity as a child when I pedalled by tricycle off the porch and crashed into the yard. Gravity was of course operating all along, whether I was aware of it or not.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • November 26, 2005
Don't Compete with Rivals; Make Them Irrelevant

By: Lou Lasday

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • November 4, 2005
Thomas Sowell: True Believers Won't Compromise

A reader recently sent me an e-mail about a woman he had met and fallen for. Apparently the attraction was mutual - until one fateful day the subject of the environment came up.She was absolutely opposed to any drilling for oil in Alaska, on grounds of what harm she said it would do to the environment.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 13, 2005
Group Therapy by Lou Lasday

It's tough to maintain customer intimacy, but more and more companies are doing it with customer advisory boards.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 9, 2005
Why Housing is So Costly by: Thomas Sowell

They say time is money, but a lot depends on whose time and whose money. For example, the San Mateo County Planning Commission in California has spent five years deciding what can and cannot be done with the site of an old racetrack no longer economically viable.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • August 12, 2005
Share of Customer by: Lou Lasday

Gaining market share is the old way of thinking and operating. The new paradigm says you should try to filla greater share of your customers' needs.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • June 24, 2005
Twixters and Kippers By Lou Lasday

First we had the empty-nesters, then the Boomers and X-gen. Now there's a new market segment - the betwixed and between.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • June 17, 2005
LEGISLATIVE Negligence By: Alan Zirkelbach

Florida's shortage of skilled technical labor is fast approaching a crisis level. Unfortunately, the Legislature failed to address the problem in the last session. At least $100 million is needed.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • June 13, 2005
Spend Wisely; Target Prospects by Lou Lasday

The hottest business trend is the miniaturization of strategic marketing initiatives.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 13, 2005
What Will Your Customers Need? By: Lou Lasday

Ask and answer these four questions to be able to predict the direction of future profits in your company.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 15, 2005
Downtown Center vs. Fairgrounds? By: Matt Walsh

It's not either or. Do them both. Listen to Paddy Kelly. Let's also take a vote.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 8, 2005
Impact Fee Fight

The Bennett-Clark bill misses the bigger picture: the efficacy of impact fees to begin with. By: Matt Walsh

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 8, 2005
How to Become a 'Benchmark' Firm

Start with the customer 'experience.' By: Lou Lasday

  • Opinion
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 18, 2005
Ignite a Customer Explosion

Columnist Lou Lasday:Introduce the 'wow' factor into your 2005 business plan.

  • Opinion
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