Strategy

Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.

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4 Ways to Make Data-Backed Corporate Travel Decisions

Finance, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Sales, Strategy

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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Business as a Force for Good: The New Norm

Management, Strategy

Marga Hoek, CEO, Sustainable Business Association Every entrepreneur should want to improve the world. Those that do not, and especially businesses that consume and damage our social, environmental, and financial assets, are contributors to the economic, environmental and social problems that we are struggling with today. This recognition makes it clear that it is the business

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Tame Your Email

Business Ops., Strategy

Email is the scourge of our modern times. When I co-invented host-based email with my former partner Bob Green in 1984 it was because we found the telephone interrupted our creative processes. We wanted a way to communicate over mundane tasks, like when and where we would meet for lunch next week, without having to

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Time management courses aren’t working—but why?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Does your organization’s professional development program offer time management courses? How is that going for you? If you’re like a lot of businesses, you’re probably footing a rather expensive bill for such training programs, with the expectation that employees will return with skills for working more efficiently and productively. Unfortunately, if you’re also like a

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One Simple Way that Not Taking Action Will Rock Your Productivity

One Simple Way that Not Taking Action Will Rock Your Productivity

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

I’m in training. I’m training myself to stop taking action.  I know…it sounds crazy but keep reading.  Not taking action has made a huge difference in my daily productivity. Perhaps you’re like me. You pack more into the day than it can possibly hold. The items on the to-do list stack up and the top

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The 5 Selfish, Scared and Stupid Mistakes Entrepreneurs Often Make

Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Strategy

Entrepreneurs are often touted as brave and visionary. They are admired for the foresight and willingness to change the model. To build better ways. While it is sometimes true it often times is not the case. The pressure of running your own gig leads many entrepreneurs to come from places more human and less heroic

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