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Common Problems: Time. Talent . Treasure.
Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to talk to the owners of two relatively new businesses in different parts of the country. One is a commercial cleaning company and the other is a...
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A tool for gender equality
Martine Liautaud, Author, Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices from Companies That Help Women Leaders SucceedDiversity is not a fashionable fancy that helps filling up a few pages in the Annual...
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Are You a Chronic Multitasker?
I have always prided myself on being a great multi-tasker. I have been known to work on writing a script while listening to an employee tell me about a day out in the field. I have worked on invoices...
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Keep Your Eye on the Horizon: Four Considerations for Healthcare Startups
Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health WildcattersAccording to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses....
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Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress
Feeling Stressed? Don’t SuppressAs a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from...
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Achieving Longevity Through Entrepreneurial Thinking
Jim Dewald, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and author, Achieving LongevityBusinesses fail. They fail fast and they fail often. Research indicates that over 50 per cent of new...
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Start-ups Stalled
You might think that the numbers say it all but I believe we need to look deeper. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), there are 27.9 million small businesses in the United States and...
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How to Improve Your Thinking
Gain a reputation for always being the one with new ideas and solutions to problems and you’ll quickly set yourself apart from the pact. That distinction requires brainpower. But trying to think on...
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The Republican National Convention came to Cleveland and literally left with a bang . . . of fireworks shot over Lake Erie. The city learned lessons in security-police on bicycles are the most fluid to...
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Scale a Business Through Franchising
Christopher James Conner, President, Franchise Marketing SystemsScale is the true definition of leverage for a business leader, it is the culmination of solid business systems, the right people, a good...
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Are You Tough Enough to Cross the Rubicon?
During the Roman republic, the river Rubicon marked the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north-east and Italy proper to the south. The river distinguished not only the...
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Small Steps to Create a Culture of Constant Growth
Shawn Hunter, President & Founder, MindscalingWhat are you thinking about when you are thinking about obligation? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you have to...
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A Tale of Two Titles
The owner of an insurance agency I know did an experiment. Sheila VanZile of Watermark Insurance printed business cards with two different titles: President and Queen. Over the course of time, she used...
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5 Reasons Employees Don't Communicate Upward in Your Organization
Both the CFO and the CEO stuck their hand into the air as I concluded my keynote and called for questions. “Why don’t employees communicate up in an organization?” There was a little more than a twinge...
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If you knew you were going to get a big influx of business would you be more likely to hire people. If you had a handle on where interest rates were headed might you think about getting a loan for new...
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Supplier or Advisor?
This past week I had two very different interactions that caused me to think about how my business interacts with customers. The two customers have some common characteristics. They are both successful...
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Learning What Leadership Is NOT
Leadership has been the tip of everyone’s tongue of the last decade. From convention keynoters, to coaches, to political pundits, everyone insists they want a cadre of leaders to carry out their...
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Give Your Company a Gift
This time of year many are focused on the holidays, giving gifts to special customers and rewarding employees for the past year. I would suggest that this is the time to put something else on your...
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All I Want for Christmas…
Chip R. Bell, Author, Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That SparklesAs grandparents, my wife and I are in the middle of brainstorming cool presents for our three granddaughters. Over the...
View ArticleThe Rules of How C-Level People Rule
In communication the number three is an important number. From childhood we remember Ready, Set, Go, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, and breakfast, lunch and dinner.So it should come as no surprise...
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