Articles by Donald Mitchell

Donald Mitchell is an author of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Read about creating breakthroughs through and receive tips by e-mail through registering for free at http://www.fastforward400.com .

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Instill a Spirit of Teamwork and Cooperation for Mutual Advantage

Stakeholders of an organization can accomplish more by cooperating than by standing at arms-length. This article explores the advantages of such cooperation.

Would You Hire a Carpenter Who Never Measures? -- Progress through Measurements of What to Work on

Sloppy carpentry can ruin the most valuable materials and leave a mess that costs a fortune to correct. Yet many businesses limit themselves to measuring physical things, such as a good carpenter might do. Perhaps no more helpful measurements exist than those that direct us towards valuable tasks.

Take a Close Look: Then Work to Change Wrong Views and Actions

You can change the world. A good place to begin is by questioning the "official" views and getting your hands dirty to determine what the real causes of problems are.

Follow the Rainbow Path to the Pot of Gold Delivered by Rapid Growth

Small businesses cannot use the same methods that giants do to increase growth. This article looks at what can be done by small businesses to locate better growth paths.

Price Proposals: Select the Best Ideas to Pursue

Everyone has an idea for how to improve pricing, but most of those ideas aren’t even worth testing. How can you avoid the worst of the wrong ones?

Master Taking the Affordable Risks to Reduce or Eliminate the Big Risks

Business model innovation requires careful examination and selection risks. This article explains more about how to do this.

Be Wise Like an Owl in Choosing Your Breakthrough Directions

Many leaders set their targets for breakthroughs in the wrong areas. As a result, they miss the opportunity to make greater improvements from the same time, money, and effort. This article provides a plan for making better choices of breakthrough targets.

Learn and Love Your Work

Do you love your work? If you don’t, you should consider how gaining more skill and exploring other interests can help you to get a job that you would love.

How Do You Focus on Excellence?

This article explores a method for helping an audience appreciate the potential of developing more excellence.

How Do You Explain Something No One Has Ever Thought About Before?

A new idea can be better explained through putting the information into a familiar, interesting context. One of the best ways to do this is with a demonstration.

Accelerate Learning by Making as Many Inexpensive New Mistakes as You Can

When taking on a difficult task, you don’t know what you don’t know. Trial and error can speed your progress by allowing you to more quickly test out what seems right . . . but isn’t. In the process, you can learn to develop faster as a leader and improve your career.

Build a Better Future by Becoming More Flexible

Learn how to plan and prepare for the unexpected in the economy and the job market and more opportunities for your business career will become available to you. This article explains how.

If You Want to Control Your Destiny, Become Immune to Flattery

Many people are diverted by manipulations that flatter their egos. Always carefully consider what the tangible benefits are, separate from the flattery.

How Can You Deliver Improved Offerings in the Most Pleasant Way?

While many organizations seek to provide improved offerings, relatively little thought goes into making the use of those offerings to be as pleasant as possible. That oversight costs a lot of sales. This article provides questions and an example to help overcome that problem.

How Can You Make It a Joy to Provide New Offerings?

A great new offering delivered by a surly grouch will fail. How can you be sure that those who deliver your offerings will delight your customers?

Get Your Points Across to More Readers by Reviewing Books

People read more book reviews than books. This article describes how you can use writing book reviews to share messages and direct attention toward important lessons that will help people.

Are Your Measurements Making You Look Bad?

Most organizations have measurements they use to establish how well they are doing. Many of these measurements can be misleading when it comes to performing well for customers. This article explains better ways of measuring to get the optimal results.

Are You Best Suited by One Strategy or Two for Eliminating Obstacles to Exponential Growth

Efficiency favors one strategy for expanding growth, but sometimes you get better results by following two complementary strategies. This article looks at how to decide which approach is better.

Overcome Ignorance to Find Great Ways to Eliminate Obstacles to Profit Growth

Companies are like spring-loaded catapults poised to push profit growth rapidly forward. But someone has to unleash the spring, obstacles to profit growth, before that profit expansion can be enjoyed.

Test Your Assumptions About Reaching an Audience

Do you want to be the best-read author in your field? Well, you can be . . . by writing and publishing online reviews of all the important books in your field. This article explains more.

To Learn from the Best, Watch Them While They Exceed the Competition

This article explains how to design a study of leadership to capture the important qualities to emulate.

Be a Process Developer and Improver: From Resolving Global Disputes to Avoiding Customer Problems

Business careers often are chosen out of a desire to create a certain result. With more knowledge, people should become aware of other roles that permit accomplishing even more of those desired results. This article suggests ways to make that transition.

To Accomplish More, Build Confidence and Assume Success Will Yield to Effort

It’s easy to underestimate the role of confidence in keeping your focus, focus that can help create success when you persevere in pursuing your personal development, career, and business objectives.

Go from Being Outwardly Cocky and Unfulfilled to Confident, Prepared, and More Successful

Stop covering up for your deficiencies that are holding you back from a successful business career. Enjoy the pleasure and success of overcoming your knowledge and experience deficiencies concerning business leadership and management!

Use Web 2.0 Sites to Improve Your Writing

Unless you are a famous author, you don’t get enough feedback from readers to know how to make your writing more effective and interesting. Feedback from Web 2.0 sites can fill that gap through reader votes and comments on what you have to say.

Tell Your Business Book’s Story To Everyone . . . But Spend Little

Authorities tell new book authors to get the news out. What they omit to mention is that it makes a lot more sense to spend little, rather than a lot.

Ignore the Experts . . . If You Want to Make Foolish Business Mistakes

Experts who have been involved in what’s new to you for decades will usually steer you straight. Ignore them, and you too can fall flat on your face. Be sure to get advice so you can learn from the mistakes of others.

Fill in Conceptual Gaps to Allow Others to See the Positive Business Possibilities

This article explains that without prior experience, most people have trouble adapting to new situations and circumstances. You can practice working on events that haven’t taken place and be ready for the new.

Multiply What You Have in Time of Need

Most people are trying to do more with less right now. One option that many are overlooking is to chop what they offer into more appealing, bite-sized bits that customers can use in different ways.

Combine the Best of Today in New Ways to Outperform Competitors’ Bests Tomorrow

Chances are that your organization does not yet know how to find and select the improved practice elements that, when combined for the first time, will drive you well ahead of the competition. This article gives you shortcuts to identify future best practices.

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