Joanie B. Connell, Founder, Flexible Work Solutions “They don’t want to work,” I keep hearing from business leaders about Millennial employees. “How do we get them to engage?” Millennials have grown up in environments where almost everything is made to be stimulating, fun, and educational. When they get to work and are assigned tedious tasks with no […]
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Craig A. Whitfield, Author, “Guess Who’s Eating Your Profits…” It goes without saying that the quickest way to a profitable business is to bank all of the day’s proceeds. However, the economic health and profitability in the food and beverage industry is continually under assault. Business environment unknowns, including fluctuating food costs, benefits, minimum wages
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Saurabh Saxena, CEO & Founder, Holachef.com Being an entrepreneur is a continuous learning process. Every day, I feel more enlightened than before. Startup life not only grooms you into being a seasoned businessperson, it also tests and hones your people-management skills which help in personal life too. The most important aspect to consider for
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Aaron K. Olson and B. Keith Simerson, Authors, Leading with Strategic Thinking Disruptive forces are sweeping through nearly every industry, placing heightened importance on both strategy and leadership. Strategy is critical to ensure that businesses navigate a changing competitive landscape. Leadership is necessary to rally teams and seize these opportunities. We have devoted our careers
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Dr. John Demartini, Founder, Demartini Institute Human behaviorist Dr John Demartini explains why it’s important to pay yourself first and other methods you can use to maximize your profits A few years ago I worked with an entrepreneur. Although he was driven, he had been overly altruistic and had not maximized his profits to himself.
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Martin Kettelhut, PhD, Author, Listen Till You Disappear True leadership is the ability to bring out the best in people and circumstances. Just giving orders is hardly leadership. You need to be able to hear what’s working and what’s not, in order to lead your company to perform at its best. There are three areas
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Chip R. Bell, Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service We are in a peculiar business era. Customers demand personalized, tailor-made delight delivered by highly adaptive front line people. New products and services released today can be reverse engineered and duplicated by competitors before close of business tomorrow. Newly acquired skills are obsolete almost
Gordon Casey, Managing Director, Front Shore Many new hedge fund managers used to work at investment banks, at trading desks. They leave their jobs behind because they have an idea, a trading strategy or an algorithm, let’s say; something that they believe enables them to beat the market. They do not start their hedge funds
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Arthur R. McFerrin, Author, The Executioner: Implementing Intangible, Elusive Success Principles Despite the depth of talent one might possess, very few CEOs know much of what the high performance, intangible and non-urgent duties of a CEO actually are. As a 40+ year CEO I can assure you that I didn’t know what my duties were
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Gastón Taratuta, CEO & founder, IMS Internet Media Services (IMS) Apple or everyone else? Most digital consumers nowadays come to a point where they must decide to buy an Apple product or the alternative. Except a consumer is deciding on more than just a product. They’re at a fork in the road with two paths:
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