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Managing a Young Workforce

We’re hoping to maximize our opportunity with a young workforce. We’ve hired several young, entry-level workers. When managing a young workforce, how do we tap into their potential without burning them out? Thoughts of the Day: There are many reasons...

Urgent or Important, What's On Your List of To Do's?

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Urgent or Important, Keep Business on Task

We need to keep business on task. I don’t have time to do the things I need to do. Arrive early, leave late, still have a ton of things on my task list. We’re all busy but this is...

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Thinking Ahead Where Will Our Business Be Tomorrow?

Had a lot of uncertainty this past year, but we made it through okay. Thinking ahead, things seem to be looking up. Am I being too optimistic? How can one really plan ahead longer term when we don’t know how...

Owners make excuses are Accountable Responsible

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Who Is Accountable?

Make \When I’m finding that my partner and I don't hold each other accountable. Occasionally we might get upset about something the other did or didn’t do, but mostly we accept each other’s excuses. These typically are along the lines...

How to build wealth as a small business owner

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Is it Time to Sell the Business?

We're thinking about whether it’s time to sell the business. Who would we sell to, and for how much. W're not in a rush, but it’s time to get prepared. Wondering how best to go about doing this. Thoughts...

Leaders Focus on Smooth Running and Growing Year After Year

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Leaders Focus on Business Growth Year After Year

Business growth wears many hats. It’s up to me to organize the workflow and oversee what’s going on. I also have to be in the field selling when I"m not in the office. Those are my top concerns as the...

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Communicating for Effective Leadership

I feel my effective leadership clues are waning. I used to be able to read how people were feeling by observing their body language. Now communication is mostly over email and phone and that makes it harder for me to...

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Out of Business – Why?

Just watched a client go out of business because they didn't have good control; the owners told us: "we don’t know what’s going on, we weren’t watching it". Don’t ever want that to happen to us. What should we put...

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Staying Organized and On Point

I don’t have a system to keep organized. Over the years I have tried lots of different ways to stay organized but none of them stick. I feel as if I’m wasting time and losing out on opportunities when I...