by Steve Miller | Apr 21, 2019 | Innovation, toothpaste sales
There’s an old myth about how a toothpaste company doubled their sales literally overnight. The problem, like so many business myths, is there’s no way to prove it’s true. Regardless of its veracity, we can still use it to teach a very important...
by kaykmiller | Sep 19, 2018 | Innovation, Steal Genius, Uncategorized, uncopyable
What do you know about actress Hedy Lamarr? There’s more to Lamarr’s story than the average person assumes – myself being an average person. The surprising truth – that she was an inventor who used the concept of Stealing Genius – is revealed in the...
by Steve Miller | Feb 14, 2018 | Innovation, Olympics, Rules
My smokin’ hot wife, Kay, and I love watching the Olympics. The competition, the athletes and their stories, keep us glued to the TV every evening. I found it particularly interesting that 178 athletes at this Winter Olympics are competing for countries they were not...
by Steve Miller | Sep 11, 2017 | Innovation, iPhone, marketing
Ten years ago this week Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, first widely accepted “smartphone.” The first model only had three primary functions – play music like a iPod, connect to the Internet, and…well, make phone calls. None of us knew how badly we would need...
by Steve Miller | Aug 28, 2017 | Innovation, Steal Genius
It’s not news that small towns across America are struggling to survive. Downtown Mom-and-Pop shops are going out of business and young people are moving to big cities to find jobs. Are small towns doomed or can they survive? And what’s the lesson for small...
by Steve Miller | Aug 7, 2017 | Innovation
Interview with Stephen Shapiro For those of you who don’t know, I’m an Advisor and Radio Headliner for the C-Suite Network. A couple of months ago at a C-Suite meeting in Dallas I met Stephen Shapiro, author of the great book, BEST PRACTICES ARE STUPID. This week I’m...
