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Rethink this Leadership Belief: The Purpose of Business Is to Make Money

Susan Fowler, Senior Consulting Partner, The Ken Blanchard Companies What if you changed the belief that the primary purpose of business is to make money to a different belief: The purpose of business is to serve. Hard-nosed businesspeople push back on this idea with a traditional argument: “You can serve all you want, but this soft stuff […]

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Multi-Million Dollar Business Principles for Any Entrepreneurial Vision

Entrepreneurship

Armando Montelongo, Founder and CEO, Armando Montelongo, Inc. “It takes years to become an overnight success.” This is a statement I offer with unabashed pleasure when people assume my ascendance is manufactured from a reality TV show. Malcolm Gladwell’s assessment of requirement for success being 5,000 hours of practice is spot on. I would add

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What Will Make the Next Generation of Leaders in your Organization Successful?

Leadership

Gerry Reffo, Co-Author, Leadership PQ What will they need to do? Predicting the future is risky; nonetheless the following trends offer some clues. Financial and Social Profit Many global business leaders know that delivering for society also delivers for the business. Some consider this cynical. Others see it as liberating. Most people much prefer to work

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How to Hold a Productive Virtual Meeting

Management

Bill Rosenthal, CEO, Logical Operations, Inc. & Communispond Want to improve your company’s productivity? Hold a series of virtual meetings that allow employees to suggest ways to help you meet a goal such as identifying new ways to generate revenue, controlling costs or recruiting needed talent. You’ll let employees up and down the line and across all

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Motivating Employees with NLP

Management

NLP is a series of techniques that can help individuals and businesses achieve better results faster. For CEOs, NLP can be used in all day to day activities, including negotiation, selling, leadership, team management and employee engagement, as well as staying fully motivated as CEO. Given that CEOs need to inspire and motivate those around

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5 Steps to Boost Emotional Intelligence Quotient

Self Governance

Anne Grady, Author, 52 Strategies for Life, Love and Work Every day, businesses of all size lose time, money and productivity when employees get sidetracked by drama due to emotional reactions to workplace situations. As Inc. recently reported in The Shocking Cost of Workplace Conflicts, American workers spend more than two and a half hours per

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The Robot CEO: A Thought Experiment on the Future of Leadership

Leadership

Owen Shapiro, Author, Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing Increasingly sophisticated robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technological marvels have already displaced many jobs once done by people—but could an intelligent robot one day take over the CEO’s job? The idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Consider: The march of automation is being driven

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The ABCs of Doing Business Ethically

Management

Santiago Rivera, Author, Doing Business God’s Way Have you ever been in a position of leadership when an ethical question arose? Kris, a friend of mine, found himself amidst a white-collar crime in one of the top healthcare systems in the world two years ago. After joining their team, he discovered the corporation was hiring new

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What You Should Know Before Embarking on a Career in Franchising

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Phil Fankhauser, CEO, Epcon When people think of franchising opportunities, they often think of fast food restaurants, hotel chains and fitness centers. When I tell people that I offer a franchise for home building communities – they do a double take. About two decades ago, my cofounder and I decided that the business model we created for

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Five common mistakes of entrepreneurs and how to avoid them

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Jenny Q. Ta, CEO, Sqeeqee Businesses fail for all sorts of reasons: poor planning, lack of cash flow, not understanding the market, treating customers poorly and much more. As a successful entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee, the first-of-its-kind social networthing® site, I have found that these are the five common mistakes that entrepreneurs make: Underestimating how

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