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The Leader as Santa

Chip R. Bell, Keynote Speaker & Author, Sprinkles:  Creating Awesome Experience Through Innovative Service Full disclosure with a hat tip to Clement Moore, the author of the famous 1823 poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” This is not intended to advocate obesity (“chubby and plump”) or smoking (“stump of a pipe”).  But, the holiday season […]

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Cultivating an Environment of Entrepreneurs within Your Organization

Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, University of Phoenix School of Business Entrepreneurship is not just reserved for business owners. While many workers still dream of being their own bosses, today employees are also leveraging their entrepreneurial talents inside their organizations to be “intrapreneurial” at work. Companies that embrace this spirit and create entrepreneurial environments not only

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Laughter

When was the last time you had a good belly laugh. I mean one of those laughs that consumes  every part of your body, that literally stops you in your tracks, almost gasping for air… that  kind of laughter. Have you ever thought about it? When was the last time you laughed like that? Or

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the ceo magazine, decision making,

Four Things You Can’t Ignore When Making Tough Calls

           When leaders continually and constantly grapple with tough questions and develop a list of standards that serves as more than a pretty poster, their beliefs serve as the bedrock of the organization’s strategy and provide guidelines about how and what to change. When beliefs veer from espoused values and create a dysfunctional or confusing set

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The Four Levels of Leadership

Edgar Papke, Author, THE ELEPHANT IN THE BOARDROOM: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of Success To be a truly successful leader requires you to be aware and operate at four levels: global, organizational, interpersonal, and self. Each level presents its own set of challenges. At the global level, you need

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Small Business All Year Round

Last Saturday was “Small Business Saturday.”  It’s a celebration of small business that was launched in 2010 by American Express and over the years it has caught on in neighborhoods and business districts around the country. This year the results were encouraging. News outlets reported that spending reached 16.3 billion which is a 14% increase

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The World’s Central Banks and Their Respective Economies Are Junkies Their Heroin: Monetary Stimulus

Douglas Obey, Author, Money and the Human Condition            I can’t help but draw the comparison between a heroin addict and today’s worldwide economies. The world’s economies have become as completely dependent on monetary stimulus (Central Banks printing money and driving interest rates to near zero) as a junkie is on heroin.

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