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Robert S. Sheen, Founder & President, First Capitol Consulting, Inc. Few pieces of legislation have triggered as much controversy as the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” Some disdain it as a governmental intrusion into private decisions about healthcare, while others admire it as a much-needed reform of the nation’s healthcare system. Regardless of your view, […]
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It goes without saying that both IBM and HP are legendary giants within the IT industry. However, each has suffered from a similar set of problems in the past, and now those issues are once again setting the stage for disaster. These include a lack of vision, extremely poor decision making on part of their
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Kim Janson, Author, Demystifying Talent Management As we well know, there are a number of challenges to face to be successful in business today. Senior executives and entrepreneurs are faced with a marketplace that constantly changes, pressure from investors or stockholders, regulatory issues and many other challenges. These challenges need to be addressed with limited
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Grant Cardone, Founder, Whatever It Takes Network How is your company culture affecting your profits and sales? Culture is defined as, “a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization (such as a business).” People used to work from sun up to sun down and had to hunt for their
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May McCarthy, Author, The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance Companies can differentiate themselves from others and gain market share by incorporating customer service DNA into their mission. To create an environment of customer service DNA, you need to partner with your stakeholders—namely employees, customers, suppliers, and your world—to help them succeed.
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People generally refer to success as though it is within your grasp, if you simply work harder or find more time to accomplish your goals. The truth is, however, that vague statements such as these aren’t a key to unlocking anything but frustration. Achieving great success isn’t about finding more time or working harder; instead,
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Joanna Weidenmiller, CEO, 1-Page In today’s fast moving markets, well-established firms are often accused of failing to come up with breakthrough innovations. Based on the resources available to them, they should be best positioned to deliver innovative products and technologies in their fields, but too often they seem to lose ground against smaller and more
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When companies merge or acquire, stakeholders usually expect that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, the facts tell a different story. One plus one does not equal three, and too often it moves shareholder returns to the wrong side of zero. A once-exceptional organization can quickly take a turn
Very broadly stated, business leaders have two categories of responsibilities to attend to: 1) the tangible, measurable-to-n-significant-digits hard stuff; and 2) the intangible, perhaps-measurable-but-only-by-proxy-at-best soft stuff. Most leaders are more comfortable working in category #1 since they also generally have a bias toward logical, rational, data-driven approaches to the issues at hand. I raise these
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Cleveland Brown, CEO, Payscout Global e-commerce holds the key to rebuilding the American economy. According to the Huffington Post, e-commerce sales have grown twice as fast as total retail sales (1). Despite challenges facing new business owners, entrepreneurs remain optimistic due to increasingly-accessible technological solutions and access to a global market. Global sales comes with
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