Greetings Leaders! As I look at successful businesses, they hall have one thing in common, they know how to plan, and then execute the plan. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Yet if it were so simple, every business would thrive, which we know is just not the case. Assuming that most business owners know how to […]
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Greetings Leaders! On July 1st, a few more consultants were let go by my client. One of them. an IT Technician, had been with them for 12 years. He was well liked and competent and had a quirky but funny sense of humor. While he hadn’t been given specific notice that he was going to
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Greetings Leaders! I was doing some research on a company called TIBCO Software and came across the following article called, The Big Deal: Tibco. The article recounts how the owner, Vivek Ranadivé, got a $25 million deal as a start up technology company, with Solomon Brothers. After making the final cut during a bidding process,
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Greetings Leaders! I don’t listen to Country music very often but did catch “Sounds Like Life to Me” by Darryl Worley on the radio this afternoon and it made me smile. The message is simple, we all have problems. Taxes, bills, broken down cars, kids running around, parents getting older. But, that is just life
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Greetings Leaders! Following my customary morning routine, I am sitting at a Starbucks catching up on the financial markets, blogging and reflecting. Being a creature of habit, there are three coffee houses that you might normally find me at. As I’m here so often other customers have come to know me, if not in person,
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Greetings Leaders! I am not a scholar or a historian, although our past has always drawn me to it. Why? Because, as mankind moves forward into the future, it is the only yardstick we have to measure our progress against. As an American, I know that I am truly blessed. I live in a time
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Greetings Leaders! I entered the world of consulting in 2001 after leaving a small firm that had to downsize because it lost a major client in a poor economy. I wanted to teach leadership development to teens and small businesses and for a year I stumbled about trying to find a way to make a
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Greetings Leaders! As some of you may know, in addition to leadership development, I day trade stocks. One of my informal mentors is Jeff White, aka The Stock Bandit. I know, the name isn’t one I would pick for leadership development, but Jeff is first class all the way. Honest, sincere, a good teacher. He
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Greetings Leaders! I went to Google’s Insights for Search to see what trends people were searching on, and Team Building was amongst the top of the list in the HR/Business Category. I pondered what value I could bring to those that are searching and then it hit me. People are looking for tips and tricks
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