May 24, 2012

Significant Business Problem: Lousy Implementation of Strategy

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When 20 percent of the most powerful business leaders in The United States lose their jobs, there is a problem! Top business consultants have argued for business to better strategize, align, and implement.

Contracts and the Importance of Putting Business Agreements in Writing

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In the ideal world, it would be great to seal every deal with a verbal agreement and handshake alone. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world and to operate a business without written contracts or agreements can prove costly – if not altogether risky.

Motivating With More Than Money

If you have employees, remember this old adage – people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Do you know the first names of each of your team member’s spouse partner or significant other? How about their children’s names? Now what about their pet’s name’s? These are the things that are critical to the success of any team regardless of the level or industry.

Achieving Your Targets: The Ladder of Commitment

Are you going to achieve your most important targets for the coming year? Your answer to that question can reveal a lot about where you are on what I call “the Ladder of Commitment “, and is generally highly predictive of how far you’ll go in your pursuit of success.

Do You Ask for What You Want?

What is it that allows one person to ask and ask and ask for what he wants, while others stop themselves before even popping the very first question? Learn the simple secret at the heart of this session.

Trusting Your Gut: How to Succeed Using Your Instincts

Successful entrepreneurs share a common trait: they trust their guts. They have a talent for zeroing and identifying profitable opportunities. They are willing to break conventional wisdom and turn a deaf ear to expert advice, and simply go through what their instincts tell them.

Strategies to Overcome Adversity – Part 2

Even though there is talk that things are turning around, 2010 is going to be tough for many. Learn how 10 extraordinary people overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success.

Strategies to Overcome Adversity

Even though there is talk that things are turning around, 2010 is going to be tough for many. Learn how 10 extraordinary people overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success.

Prepare Your Mind for New Challenges Ahead

This entry is part 6 of 11 in the series Home Business End of the Year Review

Prepare your mind for new challenges ahead. You have already taken stock of where you are. You have thought about where you want to go. The next step is to ensure that you are in the right mindset for your entrepreneurial journey, and committing yourself to staying with it.  Pat yourself in the back for [...]

Develop Your Goals and Strategies for Next Year

This entry is part 10 of 11 in the series Home Business End of the Year Review

Develop your goals and strategies for next year. As a small business or home-based entrepreneur, it is easy to get so caught with the day-to-day running of the business that you fail to think about your ultimate objectives for the business. Who has time to sit down and think about what to do next year, [...]

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