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Moe Glenner, Author, PlusChange: Genesis of Innovation Consider the following scenario: You are preparing a sales report for the next manager’s meeting. You are heavily relying on input from other people regarding revenues, costs, etc. Once you receive that information, you prepare the report complete with suggestions and calls to action. As you continue to prepare […]
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Susan Scott, CEO & Founder of Fierce, Inc. Rumors, criticisms, anonymous blasts in public forums. You made a well-regarded employee available to industry – but there is a backlash. Why didn’t we throw a going away party? You know what was going on behind the curtain and it was a disaster but what do you disclose
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Pamela Evette, President & CEO, Quality Business Solutions I founded my business as a sole proprietorship in 2000 and struggled for many years through the normal growing pains associated with a start-up – deciding when and where to invest, identifying new target markets and prospects, and determining when the time was right to add new
I believe that the #1 job of a CEO is to create more leaders. A business can only grow as fast as the people who lead it grow. To do this, you need to actively build the leadership skills. The CEOs primary job is to make sure that the senior management team are all A-players
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Travel is essential to SME success in today’s global, hyper-connected workplace. Employees working with customers across the country or throughout the world is not uncommon – in fact, it’s quickly becoming the norm. While travel is essential to developing and maintaining important relationships, providing needed support and securing new business, this piece of your company’s
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Managers hear questions every day. Some serious; some trivial. “Are the merger rumors true?” “How much is our budget being cut?” “Can we extend our deadline a couple of days?” “Is our team going to have to work over the weekend?” But the ONE question that you have to answer correctly every single time is
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You’re wired to see what you already believe. It’s a simple statement but the implications for decision-making are complex. What you already believe is built layer upon layer from your experiences which create a filter through which you see the world. Good decision-making relies on understanding how your brain’s filter colors perception and influences interpretation.
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When people talk about the inner contradictions of an organization, they frequently refer to “culture,” that omnipresent word that describes all pleasant and unpleasant by-products of decisions. But they seldom identify the real problem—the decisions that create the traps. Here are ten examples of how that happens: People don’t realize that their decisions create the
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Will Post, Founder & CEO, Hound & Gatos Pet Foods According to the Small Business Administration, over 90 percent of all businesses are considered small, which is having less than 500 employees. While there is a lot of information readily available to explain to would-be entrepreneurs about how to go through the steps to open one of these
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Chip R. Bell She was over-the-top friendly. Her eye hugs made you feel like you were in the presence of a forever friend. As she rang up my purchase at the checkout counter of the super-sized department store, she commented on my cowboy boots. “You’re either from Texas or you got a heap of cowboy
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