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5 Crucial Character Traits of a Successful Business Strategist
The business strategist in today’s business organizations has an important role to play, but in many instances the characteristics to be successful in that role are illusive or misunderstood. The...
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Grow Your Business with a SWOT Analysis
Is it time to send in the SWOT team to help your small business? Not to be confused with SWAT, SWOT is a business growth tool in which you assess your company’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and...
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Entrepreneur Devin Schain Hopes to Transform Education Through Innovation and...
By Neil Hare For most people, college is a place for expanded learning and the forging of lifelong relationships before embarking on a career that likely has little to do with that English Lit major....
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Is Your Business Haunted? Probably
Haunted businesses are everywhere. It doesn’t matter if the business is brand new or well established, they are out there. Just like the cartoon “Casper, the Friendly Ghost,” some ghosts are good to...
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Does Your Business Need a 5-Year Strategic Plan?
Does creating a long-term strategic plan for your small business sound about as relevant as buying a new typewriter? In an era when some of the biggest businesses around seem to have gotten their start...
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Are You One of These 4 Types of Entrepreneurial ‘Off Roaders’?
Following new paths (going business off roading™) is popular as well as perilous. It’s a huge decision and may or may not be the best thing you could do to grow or expand. Do you match any of these...
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How to Stop Wasting Money in Your Business
As human beings, we can become creatures of habit, falling into the trap of constantly doing things one way. This kind of complacency can spell disaster for your small business because alternative ways...
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The True Cost of the New ‘Pay-by-the-Drink’ Economic Model
The future of business resembles a biergarten—workers on tap for companies to pick and choose. With the world considering mimicking Germany’s minijobs and everyone looking to make an extra buck from...
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How Performance Management Is About Managing Expectations
This is part one of a two-part series. Be sure to also read How to Manage Employee Feedback and Performance Management. “Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint...
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How to Make Sure Your Cloud Software Implementation Is a Success
There’s a point in the life cycle of a small business when it outgrows its traditional methods of organization. From using spreadsheets for accounting to using a rolodex to manage contacts, it’s...
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How to Manage Employee Feedback and Performance Management
This is the second part of a two-part series. In How Performance Management Is About Managing Expectations we talked about how to set group goals and make group decisions. Before you can evaluate...
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How to Avoid Healthcare Plan Penalties While Helping Employees
No matter what you think of “Obamacare”—for it or against it—business owners have to confront it. It is the elephant in the room. In the five years since the Affordable Care Act was made law, employers...
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Does Your Business Need a Makeover?
Entrepreneurs are known for their tenacity and their fearless spirit, but sometimes they need to change the direction of their startups and chart a new path. Many startups reach a point where they...
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6 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Increase Agile Thinking
By Taffy Williams Becoming more agile in your thinking can enhance your chances for success. Success in business often relies on a convergence of events, recognition of them, or taking advantage of...
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Create a Culture of Change: Three Questions to Transform Your Business
What made your business successful in the past won’t necessarily make it successful in the future. We’re growing our companies in a period of immense and rapid change, and how you approach this turmoil...
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