Debbie's story is inspiring. She truly knows what it means to persevere when life gets tough. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us, Debbie. You really do sparkle! Read More
Leadership is about standing out from the crowd. The Managers are battling their way through the thickets in the forest, cutting a new pathway; adrenaline pumping and sweat flowing. Read More
Using Mike Michalowicz's blog post on 12 ways that entrepreneurs are wasting money as a jumping-off point, this post focuses exclusively on a dozen workplace people practices. Read More
Threaded conversations have become a popular way of managing information online: threaded comments and email make it easier to keep track of conversations. Threadbox takes that threaded structure and applies it to the process of managing projects and teams. Unlike traditional project management tools which have tasks, files and other information across different pages, Threadbox creates a time-st Read More
Rieva Lesonsky has been covering small business for over 30 years. She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to small business and it's struggles. In this post she talks a bit about the new Health-Care reform and how it can affect your business. Read More
Maybe we should just stop reading the news. Either way, the only thing that matters is your personal experience and, in many cases, what your instincts tell you. We all have to be cautions in uncertain times but must also recognize when to take risk and build our own foundation for recovery and growth. Read More
Innovators Forum guest blogger Marilyn Suttle discovers that when it comes to appreciation, it's often not given, infrequent or ineffective. When it is given, it isn't always helpful. Why? Because certain types of appreciations BACKFIRE! Read More
Creating a virtual workforce has become the foremost priority of business owners because of the large number of advantages that are associated with it. Few of Read More
The 80/20 rule or the Pareto Effect in sales - There are tasks that you do everyday that take 1/5th of your day and give you 4/5ths of your results. Where do you spend your time to maximize results? How to figure out your 20%. Read More
I've been asked by Charles H. Green of Trust Matters to host the April 2010 edition of The Carnival of Trust. As a sales trainer and management consultant, I believe trust is at the very core of productive sales relationships, whether those relationships are ongoing, long-term relationships (as in the relationship between an insurance agents and her accounts), or very short-term (as in the relati Read More
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