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Anyone that has ever worked on designing, planning or launching a new product has been challenged with this fundamental trade-off. How do you ensure that your product is of such a nature that it is better than your competition's? Is it enough to do just enough?

The answer is NO! You must do more, much more! Continue to improve, challenge your current status and have at least 2 unreleased product enhancements up your sleeve. In fact, have two new products up your sleeve! It is natural for competitors to flock to and mimic the best product. Keep them flocking!

And please do not forget about the staff that must support your product once it is live! 

 And there I thought they were one and the same... O, how far from the truth that statement is... 

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If you are a 80s baby you would know all the old Superman, Batman and Spiderman cartoons and movies. Although they were absolutely fantastic for the time, I must admit that I enjoy the new adaptations so much more. Is it the fact that the special effects are so far superior, the fact that one actually understands the moral of the story or the fact that one actually start looking for a super hero later in life? 

But it is a different super hero we are looking for these days. It is not the type that splits atoms, boils oceans, can turn-back time or save the damsel in distress. These days the heroes are the leaders that can motivate teams to perform the most repetitive or small task with the biggest smile, whilst ensuring that the individual and company grows. Today's heroes are the leaders that appoint staff to challenge them. Are you such a leader? What is standing in your way?

I thought these "new" heroes brought another meaning to term "new age heroes".

Go be the best leader you can be! Challenge the current status and recommend ways of improvement. You and the people around you will start changing for the better. 

 Everyone so often one stumbles upon a really great collection of art. Hop on over to lunchbreath.com. This fellow's art is not only amazing, it also has some business and leadership context. How cool is this alternative to Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Keep up the good work LunchBreath!

 Insane! Girls rule the SMS world as well? (duck)

I know my sister is fast with her cellphone. She used to turn it sideways just to save on those microseconds of wasted thumb movement! If you think about the simplistic the technology behind SMS really is, this is truly phenomenal. Oh and by the way, "texting" = "sms".

Credit goes to the author from Mashable.

This proves it!

This is a picture of the air traffic around the globe in a 24 hour period. Old, but still impressive. If anything, there will only be more planes in the sky. Each yellow dot is an airplane.

Being the proud South African, the significant air traffic in Sub Saharan Africa is very heartening to see.

Who ever thought Business Models would be this much fun!

A smart fellow with the name of Alex Osterwalder came up with a very interesting way of modeling a business. Essentially you analyse your business, stakeholders, distribution channels and then plot the information on a template such as:

Whilst doing research for a Business Fundamental assignment, I found the model below on the site businessmodelsinc.com. It is the same template as above, but with images instead of text. Imagine how much fun it could be working on your next model?

It is pretty straightforward and you discover a lot about the business you thought you knew like the back of your hand. I wish I had the art skills required to make mine as pretty as the Fifa one ;-)

I struggled to find a usable template and being the nice guy, will post a link to a Power Point template you can use**.

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OK, now for that link: Making it easier.

Talking about FiFa, who do you think will win the World Cup? I think it is time for an underdog to raise the cup :-) 

So, the time to take the MBA route has come! Can't tell you how excited I am! Looking forward to working learning and implementing all of the new knowledge! 

We are looking at using a wide variety of online tools to get past the distance challenges. The first one is Google Calender (www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/about.html). Will let you know how it goes and what our experiences are with it. 

If you have any experience with a better collaboration tool, please send me an email (danie.site@daniekrige.com).