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Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one […]
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Sidney M. Sadeghi, Attorney, Copenbarger & Associates As any seasoned business owner or CEO will tell you, it costs a lot of money to pursue a lawsuit through the trial phase. A case can literally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to take to trial. Depending on whether your attorney has been hired on an
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John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska, Co-authors, The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs As leaders, we typically oversee finance, operations, marketing, communications, human resource and even innovation officers. We empower individuals in these roles to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create, hire and innovate. However, sometimes there is a common misconception that empowerment is a handoff,
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“People say I am indecisive, but I am not so sure about that.” I have seen this quote attributed to a former US President, but I doubt he actually said this. First, it is too humorous a comment for him and, second, he is far from indecisive. The liberal pundits trying to attribute that quote
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Alexi Venneri, Co-founder & CEO, Digital Air Strike I think some people and companies are automatically resistant to even considering spouses working together, but I was fortunate in that I had already worked with my husband at two prior companies over the course of our 13 year marriage. We are somewhat unique in that we
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Last month Syracuse University decided to pull its “kiss cam” after fan Steve Port wrote to complain that the common staple at sports venues “sends the wrong message at a time when colleges are fighting against sexual assault.” He claims he was just “out to raise an important issue.” That’s all it took, one
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Mike Weinberg, Best-Selling Author, Top Sales Influencer I learned the lesson during my first stint in consulting that you don’t transform organizations from the bottom! As a former top-producing sales hunter and expert sales technician, I mistakenly believed that if I trained and coached individual producers using the New Sales Driver framework (highlighted in my
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Dr. Craig Kaplan, Founder & CEO, PredictWallStreet Employees are not saving enough for retirement. Only 38 percent of employees currently participate in a 401(k) plan, and even those employees are not contributing as much as they should to ensure a comfortable retirement. Employers can play an important role in encouraging their workers to save more. In a recent
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Juliet Funt, Founder & Owner, WhiteSpace at Work My Jewish grandparents lived next door to the K-Street Deli in Brooklyn, where they made a rye bread praised though all the boroughs of New York. Every Friday my grandma sent my grandpa to buy one fresh loaf and all was right with the world. Except for
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Are you still making excuses to use a paper calendar? You don’t have a flip phone anywhere on you, do you? I don’t know about you, but I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner. I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it
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