Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.
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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Jeff Van Gulick, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse – a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers. Mergers and
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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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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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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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Jeffrey Phillips & Alex Verjovsky, Authors, OUTMANEUVER: OutThink, don’t OutSpend As a CEO you know how much pressure there is to perform. You want to hit the ground running, but you cannot afford to make too many mistakes. Your board and your investors expect growth. Customers demand new products and exemplary service. As a CEO I grew a
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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
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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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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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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