Doug Hall’s Latest Book
PROACTIVE Problem Solving
Published January 2025 – Stop the Stupid and Build a Smarter, More Productive Organization
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How Do You Know Your Team Members & Customers are Engaged
Petar Ilchovski and I serving Dexter at Joe Borrow Foundation Event I observed the power of engagement by team members and customers last weekend. Petar and I I spent last weekend supporting the Joe Borrow Foundation’s golf event. On Friday night we served...
Stories of Victory from Stopping the Stupid
Stopping the Stupid is becoming a rallying cry at organizations who are activating their team members and managers to confront the small yet frequent flaws in work systems that get in the way of personal and organizational success. Here’s a just a couple...
A Simple Way to Energize Your Mindset
The adventure of life can exhaust and excite you. As it turns out, daily physical exercise may be one of the best ways to excite and engage your body, mind, and spirit. Research finds that adults who work out regularly are more successful than their couch-potato...
From Passive Acceptance to Proactive Action
Forty years ago I founded the Eureka! Ranch with a focus on inventing BIG IDEAS for new products or services. This remains a foundation of our work. However today leaders are also asking us to help them double their level of employee engagement in PROACTIVE Problem...
How to Reinvent Your Life, As You Ride The Ups & Downs
Will Holder, my Great Grandfather, would understand the chaos of today’s marketplace. His sailmaking business in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, went through many changes. As the age of sailing ships declined, he developed new opportunities for custom...
How SUNLIGHT can help you think quicker, smarter and more creatively!
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer THANK YOU - because of your supportMy PROACTIVE Problem Solving BookIs #4 on Amazon My goal with this newsletter is to provide you with ideas and insights for how you can ignite employee engagement in PROACTIVE Problem Solving of...
How to Get Employees to ENGAGE with PROACTIVE Problem Solving
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer THANK YOU - because of your supportMy PROACTIVE Problem Solving BookIs #4 on Amazon 75% of managers report that it is difficult to get employees proactively engaged in continuous improvement. And 44% of managers feel engagement...
An Antidote To The Multitude of Problems You Face
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer This PROACTIVE Problem Solving Newsletter and the book/training by the same name are my answer to the calls for help I’m hearing from team members, managers and leaders. The stresses each group is feeling are different. What...
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Exploring CES to Stimulus Mine for Disruptive Ideas
Doug is traveling this week to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to stimulus mine for disruptive “idea starters”. What he will not be looking for is WHAT companies are offering. Rather, he will be focused on the WHY & HOW of exhibitor...
Things worth the writing
If you wou’d not be forgottenAs soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worth reading,or do things worth the writing.Ben Franklin After a year of adventures - I have some things that I hope you find "worth the writing" This week my mind is on managing the...
Prince of Wales Cocktail
We are really proud to introduce our new Dexter Straight Bourbon. It’s the best bourbon we’ve ever made - named one of only 12 bourbons on the Ultimate Spirits list of the top 100 spirits. It’s named after Edmund Dexter one of the most famous...
Doug Hall’s Latest Book
PROACTIVE Problem Solving
Published January 2025
Stop the Stupid and Build a Smarter, More Productive Organization
The way businesses operate is broken. You see it every day — inefficient systems, endless frustrations, and wasted time. Only 32% of employees feel engaged, while managers spend up to 3.5 hours a day fixing problems caused by flawed work systems. The result is frustration, squandered resources, and missed opportunities.
In PROACTIVE Problem Solving, Doug Hall — Founder of Eureka! Ranch & Co-Founder & CEO of Brain Brew Distillery — delivers a bold solution to “Stop the Stupid” and eliminate what’s not working. His proven approach, developed through decades of innovation leadership, empowers organizations to find and fix problems by engaging everyone from the frontline to the C-suite in the problem-solving process.
Grounded in real-world success, this book draws from Doug’s experience leading over 20,000 innovations at Eureka! Ranch and scaling Brain Brew Distillery from a startup to producing over 100,000 cases of bourbon annually.
PROACTIVE Problem Solving dives deep to unearth proven methods for growth and profitability: