Author Archives: Phyllis Ezop

The Winning Moves patterns of business success repeat over and over again. If you understand these patterns, they can be a valuable guide to successful strategic choices. Based upon my 25+ years of research, these patterns result from studying strategic … Continue reading →

A November 26-27 Wall Street Journal article described what Macy’s did to successfully run its day after Thanksgiving Black Friday sale based on knowledge. In my 25+ years researching business success and failure patterns, I have looked at how businesses … Continue reading →

The book jacket of Great by Choice, the recent best-seller by Jim Collins and his co-author Morten Hansen, features four bullet points highlighting their latest surprising provocative findings. Their research findings, which are from a nine year study comparing a … Continue reading →

What choices will you make for your business? What path will you choose to take? The strategic choices a company makes greatly influence success. That’s why the phrase “Strategic Choices for Successful Business Growth” is on my website banner, and … Continue reading →

In my previous post on this blog, I described how even well known business success principles can easily be misunderstood. I’ll use an example I recently came across to help illustrate this, since explaining and clarifying how business success patterns … Continue reading →