1. Buy a competitor
2. Sell to a competitor
3. Publish your best work for free online
4. Close your worst-performing locations
5. Open a new branch in a high-traffic location
6. Hire the best salesperson away from the competition
7. Join the competition
8. Host a conference for your competitors
9. Connect your best customers and organize a tribe
10. Fire the 80% of your customers that account for 20% of your sales
11. Start a blog
12. Start a digital bootstrap business on the weekends
13. While looking for a job, spend 40 hours a week volunteering and freelancing for good causes
14. Go on tour and visit your best customers in person
15. Answer the customer service line for a day
16. Learn to be a killer presenter
17. Let the most junior person in the organization run things for a day
18. Delete your website and start over with the simplest possible site
19. Call former employees and ask for advice
20. Move to Thailand
21. Listen to audio books in your car instead of the radio
22. Sell your cash cow division to the competition and invest everything in the new thing
23. Find more products for your existing customers to buy
24. Become a gadfly and tell the truth about your industry
25. Quit your job
26. Move your operations to another city
27. Become a vegan
28. Have all meetings in a room with no chairs, and everyone wears a bathrobe over their clothes
29. Open your offices only four hours a day
30. Open your offices 24 hours a day for a week
31. Find every project that is near the danger zone (in terms of p&l or deadlines) and cancel it, no appeals
32. Go for a walk during lunch
33. Get an RSS reader and read a lot more blogs
34. Go offline for longer than you thought possible
35. Write five thank you notes every day
36. Stop sending spam
37. Do your work somewhere else. Set up your chiropractic table at the mall
38. Have everyone at work switch offices
39. Give your most valuable possessions to a stranger
40. Go see live music
41. Start a company scrapbook and take daily notes
42. Hire a firm to make a documentary about your organization
43. Buy some art
44. Make some art.
45. Do the work.