Financials, also known as the financial statements, are critical to managing a business successfully. We know the four standard financial statement are the 1) Balance Sheet, 2) Profit & Loss/Income Statement, 3) Cash Flow Statement, and 4) Statement of Retained Earnings. To run a business, these provide the most basic required financial information on which to build your business metrics. We understand that the first two of these financial states focus upon the company's earn

Failure is a term we are quick to apply when things don’t end the way we planned. We have all failed to win at a game. Bruised a knee. Put together failed expansion efforts, introduced new products, and run A/B test and neither worked. These are failures. The problem with failure, other than its painful, comes when we stop the process of discovery at these first feelings of failure. When we embrace failure as a final state of things, we stop progress in its tracks. So, how t

Lean wins fans daily in the business and health world. Neither too thin, nor bloated is working for us today. In business, the "Lean" movement was really kickstarted by Eric Ries, author of The Lean StartUp and Entreprenuer in Residence at Harvard Business School. When most people think about lean in business, they focus on lowering the cost of doing business and shrinking budgets. That is not what the Lean Movement is about at all. Lean is about building a strong business