Small Guy vs. Big Guy

If you have an idea for a small business or startup but feel discouraged because you feel you can’t hope to compete with the big guys, you need not give up on your dreams. Hamburgers were around before McDonald’s got its start, and the same is true with athletic shoes before the advent of Nike or…

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Customer Services

You Have Customers, Now What?: 3 Key Strategies to Sustain Your Small Business Once your small business starts picking up speed, you will want to be sure that you have the capacity to handle your growth. So, how do you continue to grow once you have gotten over the initial hurdle of attracting your first customers? This…

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Mega Shark

Conventional wisdom tells us to never burn a single bridge in our professional lives because you never know when you might need that relationship again. I firmly believe that there are going to be circumstances and people that nearly require you to do this: Burn some bridges so that you will never need to work…

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Six Leadership Obstacles to Team Success As leaders, we want the positive elements of success—achievement, notoriety, money, and excellence for clients and customers. But we’re unwilling to do the right things to get there. The missing cultural piece is courageous accountability. What are the six obstacles that can get you off-course? Read Lee’s latest article below,…

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David Burkus argues in his book Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual that the management practices that have evolved from the factory work economy just do not apply to today’s knowledge work economy. Burkus walks the reader through compelling case studies of companies who have abandoned traditional management and leadership practices in favor of…

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