The Alpha Dogs Blog

For more than twenty years, I've been writing about entrepreneurs and small business trends, and I've had the privilege of visiting hundreds of small companies. While I'm occasionally wowed by a cool new product or service, my real passion is what I call ordinary, or "real world", businesses - the kinds of companies you'll find in virtually every big city or small town in America. That's what inspired me to write Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack (Collins, Dec. 2005).

What does it take for these businesses to achieve spectacular success? How do they become Alpha Dogs, moving far ahead of their competitors to become leaders of the pack?

Here's a hint: their genius lies not in what they do, but in how they do it. And because they're so focused on strategy and on differentiating themselves in the marketplace through superior execution, I think the lessons they can impart both to other small companies, and to much larger ones, are priceless.

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