How to Break a Business Growth Plateau

Without Losing Your Business Identity A growing new business goes through a series of plateaus. Whether it’s $500,000, a million or beyond. Your road to success requires you to realize the plateau you’ve reached and work to break through it. Through my experience with industry organizations and speaking engagements, I’ve seen hundreds of businesses that…

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How to be Likeable in Business

And why that’s important. Insights on Bob Burg’s concept, “Know. Like. Trust.” Do you want to be the business leader everyone trusts? Do you wish to be the one they go to when they have a problem to solve? Would you like people to seek you out for your special skills and talents? Experience tells…

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6 Ways to Create a Healthy Partnership

How to avoid the main reason smart startup businesses fail. 6 ways to create a healthy partnership if you are starting a new business. Part 2 on healthy business partnerships (Read part 1) Why smart businesses fail Sometimes early on, the priority start ups place on functional areas steals the focus…

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Choose Your Business Partners Wisely

And “wisely” might not be what you think. Part 1 of a 2-part series on building healthy business partnerships Sometimes entrepreneurship can be a lonely road. The vision you have and the ideas you create make total sense to you. But sometimes they don’t quite connect with other people. You’re on fire with possibilities. You…

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CardMunch for LinkedIn

I was just down at the Best of Breed conference in Tampa, which was 200 IT executives invited to talk about the future of IT deliver and how disruptive technologies like mobility, social media, and cloud computing were going to affect business IT for the next few years.  Very interesting debates and conversations were happening…

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