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Does Your Business Have the Strategic Agility Required to Survive?

Posted in Articles, Strategy, tagged , , , on March 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The world of business innovation and strategic planning is ever-changing and always evolving into something new and exciting. Does your business have the strategic agility to survive the world-wide recession of 2008 and onward? “It’s an ever-changing world,” you’ve heard the statement, but has it really sunk in yet? The world of business innovation and [...]

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Thriving in Tough Economic Times

Posted in Articles, Avoiding Mistakes, Strategy, tagged , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is an article recently published in ‘in-business’ magazine, you can download the PDF of actual article from this link. Thriving In The Current Economy While these are undoubtedly uncertain times, the fear mongering of attention seeking headlines would have you believe we are in the depths of another great depression. While it certainly pays [...]

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Article of the month: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

Posted in Articles, Innovation, Strategy, tagged , , , on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With the financial fall out in the US being felt in markets worldwide, Dickens’ famous quote rings true now more than ever. The question I get from my clients is “are these good times or bad?” They’re neither. They are what you make of them. Opportunities abound, 12 months ago we were in the height [...]

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Strategizing Your Business: A Market-Dominating Primer

Posted in Articles, Leadership, Strategy, tagged , , , on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Every business needs to set goals. But what comes next? Learn to strategize your business to achieve your goals with less daily effort. Dominating the market you’re in has less to do with the actual day-to-day operation of your business than you might think. In fact, dominating your market is largely about strategic planning. Forming [...]

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Becoming an Effective Executive.

Posted in Articles, Newsletters, Success Factors, tagged , , , on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am avid reader. I believe that I have to be, as a consultant I need to be where the knowledge is. I need to be in flow of information and I need to know how to access that information quickly. In today’s knowledge economy, we can’t afford not to ‘know’. We have to be [...]

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Top Ten Ways to Show Appreciation to Staff

Posted in Articles, Leadership, tagged , , on May 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »

A survey done by George Mason University in the ’50s, ’60′s, ’70s, and ’80s and probably in the ’90s as well, asks workers, “What motivates you?” The results did not vary throughout the 40 or 50 year period of time. Are you curious what motivates people who work for other people? Reread the title of [...]

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Negotiation Tactics: Smart Ways to Gain the Upper Hand in Business

Posted in Articles, tagged , on April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The reality of any negotiation is that it is an exercise in psychology. Realistic market factors play their role, but final decisions are usually made based on perception. How the seller perceives you, the investor, will influence the deal. Here are some tactics to tip the scales in your favor. Successful negotiators are always one [...]

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How To Simplify Your Business

Posted in Articles, Process Improvement, tagged , , , , on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

7 Steps To Streamline Every Area of Your Business For every step you introduce into a process the complexity increases exponentially. Actually is increases by the ‘square’ of the number of steps involved. That is one step has a complexity factor 1 squared = 1. A two-step process has a complexity factor of 2 squared [...]

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