You’re passionate, you care, you get it, you think about your business day and night, but let’s face it, you’ve got a big vision for that business and you probably can’t realize that vision all by yourself.

Your passion and commitment are essential, but it’s your ability to build passion and commitment for that vision in others that is going to be the key to growth.

You need committed and connected staff members. You need committed and loyal customers. You need to create a commitment factory.

Few would dispute that Google sits at the center of the Internet. As the leader in search, Google is now the Internet’s premier brand and the planet’s most potent free service. Managing that commanding position falls largely to seasoned technology executive Eric Schmidt, who in 2001 was tapped for the CEO post by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Are your company's leaders know-it-alls? It's a common trait of executives to think they've heard it all, and know it all, but that's a dangerous assumption.

Have you ever seen a magnified picture of a fly's eyes? The common housefly has a compound eye, enabling it to perceive dozens of images at the same time.

Flying back from San Diego, I sat next to a very engaging entrepreneur, Raymond Mendoza. Thirteen years ago he founded Short Circuit Car Audio Repair, a small business that fixes car stereos on behalf of car dealership service departments. He’s got 1200 dealership customers and a staff of audio electronics experts who work right here in San Jose (rather than the Philippines, his home country, but that’s a different story on the downsides of offshoring).

What separates the average entrepreneur/CEO from the Truly Great? Why do we know the names Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Desh Deshpande and Jeff Bezos but not many more? There are definite lessons one can learn from dissecting the actions and attitudes of fabulously successful leaders, even if many of them will not be apparent at first glance.

Most of the technology driven new product / service  ideas have one thing in common when compared to the rest of the product/service world.  They tend to be driven more by the technology innovation rather than market innovation.  Proctor and Gamble spends incredible resources before a product is launched by simply trying to ensure that they are leading with marketing.  PT Cruiser, the car, was developed by Yale anthropologists - digging up people's minds to come up with a concept that would resonate with the hearts of people.  While, for some product