Everything you need to know about setting up, managing and growing small businesses. Veterans, as well as newbies share their stories and valuable lessons.
Jim Dewald, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and author, Achieving Longevity Businesses fail. They fail fast and they fail often. Research indicates that over 50 per cent of new firms fail within five years, and 75 per cent are gone in ten years. So what is different about the firms that survive? The […]
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Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress As a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from long work hours with no end in sight. Stress can leave you irritable, tired and short-tempered. That is not a good
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Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health Wildcatters According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses. That means 14 percent of the population consider themselves entrepreneurs! Many startups in the U.S. have become highly successful in their respective marketplaces over the past few years. Just think – we
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I have always prided myself on being a great multi-tasker. I have been known to work on writing a script while listening to an employee tell me about a day out in the field. I have worked on invoices while listening to a webinar. I am writing this as I sit on an airplane traveling
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Martine Liautaud, Author, Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices from Companies That Help Women Leaders Succeed Diversity is not a fashionable fancy that helps filling up a few pages in the Annual Report. Diversity is a true and efficient response to the challenge of growth, inside and outside the corporate world. Women are the force that
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Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to talk to the owners of two relatively new businesses in different parts of the country. One is a commercial cleaning company and the other is a manufacturer of specialty ice cream. The passion that these owners possess is very common among small business owners.
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Why Closing Your Eyes is a Powerful Leadership Tool. Look around. Take in everything that you see. There’s the stack of sticky notes with calls to be returned; a report that needs to be reviewed; the partially finished cost proposal for your big client; and a half-eaten sandwich sitting next to the book club book
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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
Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO, BrandTwist Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a start up with big plans, looking at branding best practices from successful brands such as Kool-Aid, Avon, Apple, and Virgin can yield some valuable lessons that can then be applied to your brand for big impact.
Simon Slade, CEO & Co-founder, SaleHoo Hiring staff can be one of the greatest challenges for a business owner because expanding your team with great talent is a constant necessity. The trend of remote work is a response to that challenge. GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com suggests that 50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with partially
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