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How a Marine Mentality Can Help Build a Successful Business in Any Industry

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business

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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Leading Undisciplined Service

Leadership

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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Three Expressions Leaders Should Eliminate From Their Vocabularies Right Now

Leadership, Self Governance

James Sudakow, Principal, CH Consulting, Inc. In the business world these days, leaders at all levels have to play numerous roles to drive short and long term success and viability of their companies. Among one of the most important of these roles pertains to people. As leaders, we need to find ways to create forums where we

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Five Myths of Crisis Leadership

Leadership, Management

Harry Hutson & Martha Johnson, Authors, Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most Leaders are confronted with a daily barrage of demands and decisions. It’s hard to step back and consider the possibility of disasters. Some wonder if such thinking is morbid and fatalistic. But under it all, leaders hold on to myths that keep them from being

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Your “One Big Thing” – Going Beyond Success to Achieve Significance

Leadership

Joseph A Michelli, Author, Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way Columnist and author Irving Kristol once suggested that leaders need to define that “one big thing and stick with it.” Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of

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3 Unconventional Ways To Empower Your Team

Leadership

Gary Douglas Empowering your team is about you, far more than it is about your team. As an unconventional leader, you start empowering them (and yourself) by giving up control. You may desire to control everything, and if you are willing to let it go, you and your team will together create so much more

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Homeward Bound: Four Questions to Ask Yourself on Your Drive Home from Work

Leadership

It’s 5 p.m. and you’re ready to leave the office and make the journey home. How do you spend this time between destinations? You could lament the inevitable rush-hour traffic, or tune in to your radio station of choice. But you can also use this time to reflect on your day and gradually switch gears

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Do You Know the Business You’re Really In?

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Ask most people what business they’re in and they’ll likely tell you what they do for a living. Some will define themselves by the product they produce or the services they provide, others will default to their job title or their role as a way of defining their business. The problem with these definitions is

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Get Out of Your Own Way for Company Growth

Leadership

Bryan Miles, CEO, eaHELP When you’ve started an organization from the ground up, it can be really tempting to keep it a one-man (or woman) show. You’re the one who’s taken the risks, endured the sleepless nights, poured out the sweat and tears to get your company off the ground. But in order to keep your

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Need Motivation Tips? Learn from Super Bowl Commercials.

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Small Business, Strategy

The big day was approaching. By “big day” I don’t mean election day (which can’t come soon enough) or a wedding day, I mean the Super Bowl—THE big day for sports fans. To be clear, I am not a sports aficionado but even people like me watch the Super Bowl. Not because of the game

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