The Most Rewarding Marketing Mistake I Ever Made

Recently, a colleague asked me, “What was the most rewarding marketing mistake you ever made in business?” It’s a great question, and I quickly had an answer for him because it was an incredibly painful marketing mistake. However, it pro...

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Mitchell Levy: Thought-Leading CEO Reviews Time-Tested Principles

 Mitchell Levy: 4 ‘Aha’ Truths for a Changing Corporate Landscape Technology is moving much faster than many of our institutions – while it continues to change the way people interact with businesses, many corporate leaders are still oper...

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Return on Networking – the ROI of Social Media

I was never a fan of the cocktail party-variety networking scene. I will never be one to dart around a room shoving business cards into people’s hands. I prefer meaningful conversations with people, getting to know them and vice versa. Bu...

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Jim Kohles: Transitioning from CEO to Retiree: Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

3 Steps You Can Take Now to Realize Your Goals Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of  more fishing, traveling or sailing  when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it. ...

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Does Your Leadership Measure Up?

The top five leaders most admired by the world’s business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela  and Jack Welch – in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC. The qualitie...

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Will Your Beneficiaries Beat the Odds?

Tips for Helping Your Family Survive the ‘3 Generations’ Rule Two-thirds of baby boomers will inherit a total $7.6 trillion in their lifetimes, according to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research -- that’s $1.7 trillion more tha...

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How is Innovation Like Baseball?

Travelocity Founder Shares 3 Ways CEOs Can Benefit by Thinking Like a Manager “In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a strong player,”  says Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity.com and founding CEO of its co...

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Plan Ahead for Your Online Hereafter

Asset Protection Lawyer Offers 3 Steps to Take Now Now, you really can live forever, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Many of your online accounts – from automatic bill payments to eBay – may remain active after you pass away, unles...

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Kathleen Brush: Is Your Leadership Hurting the Bottom Line?

4 ‘Bad Leader Behaviors’ That Affect Productivity, Profits What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies? “Plenty,” says Kathleen Brush, a 25-year veteran of international business an...

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June Jewell: 3 Problem Areas Where Professional Firms Can Find Lost Money

Architectural, Engineering & Environmental Firms Lose an Average 100K a Year, CPA Says June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $1...

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How Top Companies are Elevating Loyalty, Productivity and Innovation in Their Workforce

Treat Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource with Care, Says Former Businessman of the Year When a successful formula is discovered in the business world, it’s copied and becomes part of standard operating procedure throughout entire indus...

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Lost Sales Leads: 4 Common Problems & How to Correct Them

U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study. But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on oppor...

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Mastering Life Balance: Achieving Greatness at Home and at Work

5 Tips from Former Businessman of the Year Gary Kunath People are overwhelmed with the complexities of their own lives and are desperately seeking a way to maximize happiness in their home and work lives, says Gary Kunath, an entrepreneur, speaker...

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Terry Jones: 4 Ways to Turn Your Company Into an Innovation Machine

Terry Jones Travelocity and Kayak.com Founder Offers Tips for Culture Change The world’s future leaders overwhelmingly believe that today’s businesses can grow only if they can innovate – and that today’s business leaders aren’t demonstrat...

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Chris Hurn: 5 Resolutions for Your Business

Almost on a daily basis, news reports detail the marketplace factors that can affect businesses large and small. No matter what the potentially game-changing info coming out of Washington, D.C., or China, though, there are winning strategies that...

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Kathleen Brush: What Will 21st Century Managers Need to Succeed?

Kathleen Brush: Expert Shares 7 Skills for Competing Globally Are the young, multiplying countries of Africa the next frontier? Which countries will be members of the EU in five years? Where is the ground safe in the Middle East? What will...

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The Business Growth Strategy For The 21st Century

When planning your company's business growth strategy what do you consider is the most important element? Remember, the success of your business growth strategy for the future success depends on the decisions you're making right now. Businesse...

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Elements of Business Development Strategies

Business development strategies? When we write about business development strategies we're referring to the confluence of several interdependent leadership and business growth attitudes and actions. To us business development strategies connec...

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The 5 Phases of Business Development Process

The Business Development process in Government Contracting relates to the identification of suitable contracts and preparation of proposals in response to Government solicitations for these contracts. It typically consists of five separate and...

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Leadership Development Strategy: True Leaders Help Their Employees Grow

When your employees are actively involved with the leadership development strategy they help you and the business develop sustainable growth and profitability. I hope your leadership development strategy is one whose focus is on helping your e...

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