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13 Essential Skills And Traits Of Successful Business Owners
Willingness To Sacrifice Entrepreneurship by nature requires sacrifices both in your personal and business life: be it sacrificing personal time to learn a new skill to help the business or the...
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15 Daily Habits Of Great Leaders
Implement Reading Time I have had the pleasure to work with many entrepreneurs over my career. The single factor that all the successful ones had in common was their reading habits. It goes something...
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Promoted To Management? 15 Ways To Navigate Workplace Relationship Changes
Choose Your Language Carefully A promotion to a managerial role will inherently alter the dynamics between peers. However, the language used to express that can provide context and help; it is easy to...
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15 Clear Signs Your Employee Deserves A Promotion
They Exhibit Above-Average Performance When and if an employee asks about additional ways to contribute, it is a good sign that they are ready for more responsibility. Granted, said employee has to be...
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15 Ways To Actually Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions In 2020
Aim To Be Better Than You Were Yesterday Be better than you were yesterday. Personal and business lives are always evolving, and we encounter obstacles that we have to overcome. The goal is not to be...
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Is It Time To Walk Away From Your Startup Idea? 15 Ways To Decide
Test Your Doubts Against The Data Emotional decisions, both in personal and business lives, tend to have debatable outcomes at best. A better way is to formulate those doubts into tangible hypotheses...
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16 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Pursue A Side Hustle
Do you have a purpose besides earning money? Though the standard considerations such as viability, earning potential and other similar factors should be the main basis of the decision, a secondary...
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Feeling Anxious About Your Business? 16 Ways To Cope With Entrepreneurial Stress
Accept And Become Aware Of Your Stress Stress, much like a task, has to be managed. It boils down to understanding and accepting that being stressed is part of the journey. That acceptance then leads...
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Misconceptions About COO Duties And How A Fractional COO Can Maximize Your...
Starting With Your New Remote Chief Operating Officer So you have decided to hire an interim or part-time Chief Operations Officer. What are the next steps for your organization and how will your new...
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Misconceptions About CMO Duties And How A Fractional CMO Can Help Maximize...
Laying The Foundation For Your New CMO So you have decided to hire an interim or part-time CMO. What are the next steps for your business and how will your new interim CMO fit in the picture? It is...
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15 Ways To Onboard New Hires Efficiently (Even During Busy Times)
Create A Complete Feedback Loop One of the rather easy ways to evaluate and improve onboarding, be it in a high- or low-stress environment, is having a complete feedback loop with all stakeholders....
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15 Tips For Tactfully Turning Down A Potential Client
Stick To The Facts Polite and factual statements are virtually always the best way of approaching most conversations, even the difficult ones. In this particular instance, it is just as important what...
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15 Tips For Navigating Family Business Challenges
Keep Family Issues Out Of The Business Though there are many different ways that may help avoid family pitfalls, one of the safest ways is a clean-cut separation of family and business. Creating a...
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Overwhelmed? 15 Ways To Set Better Boundaries For Work And Life
Enforce The Consequences Of Your Boundaries Boundaries are less about explicit expression than actions. For boundaries to be of any impact, there have to be consequences that are obvious enough. Those...
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Keep Your Stakeholders In The Loop With These 14 Communication Tips
Operate With Consistent Integrity Though communication is the obvious answer, there is more to it. Communication at its face is great; however, in order to have the proper impact on stakeholders,...
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Financing Your First Business? 16 Expert-Recommended Funding Tips
Seek To Self-Fund First Though there are many tools and platforms that make fundraising more accessible, there is still a lot to be said about self-funding. A self-funded company tends to signal...
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12 Up-To-Date Lead Generation Tips For The Modern Salesperson
Look In ‘Little Ponds’ The simplest way to exponentially grow inbound leads in later stages of a business is to adopt the “big fish, little pond” methodology. Secondary venues, or “little ponds,” that...
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Job Seekers: 13 Important Things To Look For In Your Ideal Recruiter
What They Do With The Information You Provide Them Much like any other service provider, recruiters depend a great deal on information to provide the best possible result. Hence, it is important to be...
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Is Your Company Growing Too Fast? 14 Red Flags To Watch For
You’re Putting Out Daily Fires Rapid growth entails change, which tends to create friction. That sort of friction tends to manifest in a wide range of symptoms such as quality control issues, customer...
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15 Culture-Building Tips For An All-Remote Team
Encourage Cross-Collaboration As someone that has worked 16-plus years remotely, the single most important cultural tool is cross-collaboration. Remote teams that integrate cross-collaboration among...
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Don’t Be Embarrassed To Ask These 14 Common Leadership Questions
When should I stop? In my experience, one of the least asked questions is, when do we reach the dreaded “diminishing returns?” Many entrepreneurs and senior executives incorrectly assume that all...
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13 Mistakes Business Owners Make When Trying To Differentiate Their Company
Always Comparing To Others Though product and services comparison may work, it is a short-sighted approach. Comparison in a crowded market may, in some cases, even be harmful by providing additional...
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Seven Things Every Business Should Avoid When Using Crowdfunding
Not Being Honest About Concept And Needs Crowdfunding is no different than any other business relationship: folks trusting you and investing money in you and your business. Hence it is important to be...
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15 Coaches Share Their Top Advice On Creating Multiple Revenue Streams For...
Ask If It’s Viable Right Now It is not really hard to create additional revenue in most businesses. The real question is if it is feasible or does it interfere with any other aspect of the existing...
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15 Ways To Build Better Co-Worker Relationships For A More Positive Workplace
Be Genuine If the intent is to have a long-term “fix,” there is really only one sure way: be genuine. There is a mutual self-interest on both sides of the relationship. Your co-worker is likely to be...
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Want To Develop Internal Talent? 13 Strategies For Creating Your Future Leaders
Take A Long-Term View Talent development is a matter of taking the long-term view with the matching resources and patience. Be it in education or the real-world, cultivating human capital in a dynamic...
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Avoid Making These 14 Critical Mistakes When Promoting Yourself Online
Overselling Yourself One of the rather repeated mistakes in self-promotion is “overselling.” Self-promotion is one of those propositions that fall in the “under-promise and over-deliver” category....
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16 Ways Leaders Can Get Comfortable With Not Having All The Answers
Admit You Don’t Know, But Resolve To Find Out Say it with me: “I don’t know. I will get back to you on this.” This particular phrase is the best friend of any true leader. It is an absurd assumption...
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Strategy Planning: What Every Leader Should Know
Whether you lead a team of a couple of people, a department with 25 people, a division with hundreds of employees, or an organization with thousands of individuals you are going to want to acquire...
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Customer Experience: It is Not Just About Satisfaction
Customer Experience has grown beyond a customer’s satisfaction with your product or service. The best companies view Customer Experience as the end experience that a customer has with the company...
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Analytical Decisions: A Great Place to Start
We live in a world overflowing with data. As a result company decisions no longer need to rely solely on the “gut” of the leaders, or opinions of the outspoken. The goal of this article is to discuss...
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PMO: Getting Your Project Management Office Started
An emerging trend over the past 10-20 years (certainly in the information technology areas of a company) is to implement project management (PMO) office to help companies deliver on strategic plans....
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Project Management: An Integral Component to Company Success
Every company has numerous projects occurring at any given time. Core project management skills are necessary to ensure that projects are run efficiently and effectively. Project management has been...
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Business Process Improvement: Identifying What Needs to be Fixed
Regardless of the age or size of your organization, it is likely you have one too many business processes that need to be improved. Identifying these areas of your business that need to be improved...
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Your P&L: Where to Focus
The quick death of any young company is often the lack of focus on the right areas of their profit and loss (P&L) statement. Established companies can likely get away with a lack of focus and...
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Research: Gather Your Facts for Better Decision Making
Research is often undervalued in a company as leaders rely on their own experiences, their knowledge set, and possibly the knowledge and experiences of others. Surprisingly this can prove to be a...
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Employee Growth: Providing a Rewarding Environment for Your People
At the core of a company’s success is the knowledge held by its employees. Providing a culture that nurtures increased employee growth through knowledge acquisition can prove to be one of the greatest...
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Communication: Mindful and Effective Ways to Keep Everyone Informed
Some companies operated on a need-to-know basis. And certainly, in some situations and industries, this may be a necessary position to take with respect to sharing information within a company....
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15 Effective Strategies For Increasing Productivity Without Adding Stress
Refine Skills And Practices Stress in a productivity context is a moot point because it is a symptom of other issues, including time and task management skills, prioritization, and perception. Stress...
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Feeling Negative? 16 Ways To Boost Your Optimism
Treat Your State Of Mind As a Symptom A negative or positive state of mind is a symptom, not the cause, and should be treated as such. The underlying cause is a matter of world view. Do you choose to...
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15 Key Qualities That Define An ‘Agile’ Leader
Adapting The concept of an “agile leader” is an unfortunate subcategorization that is both vague and conceptually already covered in servant leadership. Agility, in terms of adaptability in decision...
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Giving Feedback? 15 Ways To Keep It Constructive
Remember What You Can Control The only true difference is the perception of the recipient. One can choose to utilize it or choose to take it personally. We have no control over how someone...
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16 Top Tips For Building Company Culture From Scratch
Define Your Wants And Needs Defining your wants and needs is by far the most significant step that should supersede any other. Without a clear outline of the “what, when, and how,” every other action...
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15 Steps To Take When A Company’s Profits Plummet
Don’t Panic The single most important action should be understanding the reason behind the nosedive. Though it sounds elementary, it is surprising how many stakeholders jump to action without knowing...
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How To Treat Your Customers Like Humans: 13 Tips For Startups
Treat Them As You Would Like To Be Treated The best rule of thumb is to treat your client the way you would like to be treated. The size of the company is not relevant — a one-man shop or a national...
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What is Strategy Consulting (and Why You Need It)
Leading a business to success requires a good amount of knowledge about operations and day-to-day tasks. These are what keep your business afloat. But you will likely miss out on market opportunities....
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Strategy Consulting vs Management Consulting
Are you wondering whether your business needs strategy consulting vs management consulting? While at face value they might seem the same, but there are key differences. In this in-depth guide, you’ll...
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Strategy Consulting vs Business Consulting: What’s the Difference?
There is every chance that at some point in your career you will need to take on advice on where to take your business. Maybe you will get this from a peer, a previous colleague, or it might be your...
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Fractional Chief Marketing Officer vs. Chief Marketing Officer
Have you ever had the perfect dinner at your favorite restaurant and the waiter brings you the dessert cart? The temptation is real as you stare at those decadent creations but you know you can’t...
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Fractional Chief Operating Officer vs. Chief Operating Officer
When a company begins to scale up, it may find itself faced with problems it just doesn’t know how to solve. When this happens, it may be time to consider bringing in a Chief Operating Officer (COO)....
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