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The Best Entrepreneurs Never Break This Business Rule
Have you ever felt like you were inconveniencing a small business with a simple call to place an order? You could be making the same mistake by breaking a little known and often overlooked business...
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Pirates and Business Plans: Have Ye a Map?
You wouldn’t leave home without knowing where you’re going. Printing directions, using GPS, or taking a paper map are essential first steps for any road trip. Your business is a much bigger journey...
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Four Entrepreneurship Lessons from Captain Kirk
James Tiberius Kirk. Rebel. Leader. Friend. Captain. …entrepreneur? Yes, believe it or not, there are powerful lessons Captain Kirk can teach every small business owner. Watch this brief video as I...
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What is your business cause?
Your business needs to be about more than money. With a business cause, your business becomes vibrant and meaningful. Without a cause, you run the risk of becoming a Scrooge, emotionally isolated and...
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Work Life Balance: Balancing the Life Part
It’s hard to throw a rock in business without hitting someone saying something about work life balance. But that’s only the half of it. Even business owners who balance life and work perfectly have...
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Protect Your Business Focus Like a Fortress
As a business owner, it’s not hard to imagine yourself as a heroic general. If you were at war, you would be awfully suspicious of anyone bearing gifts—Trojan horses—from outside your walls. But Trojan...
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Why Your Hard Work is Killing Your Business Valuation
Are you a crazed business ninja? Trying to do everything all the time? Always fighting the next piece of work? Imagine doing less and having more time. “I couldn’t do that,” you’d say. “I’m the expert...
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Business Feedback: To Listen or Not to Listen?
I’m sure you get feedback about your business all the time. People are always telling you what you should do or change. But which business feedback should you listen to? When is it valuable and worth...
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How to Stay Focused and Not Get Bombarded with Business Calls
If you’re like one stressed business owner I just spoke to, you might be getting calls ALL the time. . . . past acquaintances . . . salespeople . . . customers. You name it. They’re all asking for...
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About Entrepreneurship: Feed Your Optimism
Take a moment and brainstorm characteristics that accomplished entrepreneurs share. Thinking something like resolve, initiative, open-mindedness, charisma, or a similar attribute? Right…but incomplete....
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Appease Question Vultures and Stay Focused
Picture two dozen unread documents at your desk, at least 25 time-contingent emails within your inbox, with a do-or-die meeting in three hours. Then somebody knocks on your door with a “quick...
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Protect Your Business Focus Like a Fortress
As a business owner, it’s not hard to imagine yourself as a heroic general. If you were at war, you would be awfully suspicious of anyone bearing gifts—Trojan horses—from outside your walls. But Trojan...
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Which Motivational Documents Actually Help Workers Stay Focused?
Culture statements, missions, visions, values, credos, secret handshakes, etc. The list goes on and on. At best, a megaton of company literature distracts you, employees, and customers alike. Not good....
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Digital Detox: The Lifesaver We All Need
Work can seem all-consuming. Think texts, voice-mails, emails, briefs, newsletters. They’re never ending! All that sensory pollution often makes insight seem like an endangered species. Not good. And...
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4 Things to Do Before Hiring an Employee
Welcome to a new year and my all new video series, Chaos vs. Entrepreneur! Every Tuesday I’m going to bring you hot-n-ready bite-sized morsels of small business magic, crafted to help you do battle...
View ArticleWhat really determines the value of a company?
Chaos is at the heart of every high-growth business. Chaos is a powerful stimulant for business growth. It’s also the leading cause of business failure. In this video, I share four critical steps I use...
View ArticleWhat is the cause that drives your business?
Chaos is at the heart of every high-growth business. Chaos is a powerful stimulant for business growth. It’s also the leading cause of business failure. In this video, I share four critical steps I use...
View ArticleHow to get a raise and get promoted
Are you getting what you want out of your career right now? If not, what do you believe is standing in your way? Recently the employee of one my Invaluable CEO coaching clients asked me for help. She...
View ArticleBusiness Partners and Monsters
Entrepreneurs, especially new ones, often think that getting a partner who shares their vision and energy is the fastest way to grow a business. Unfortunately, they’re most often wrong. It’s not...
View ArticleHow Focused Is Your Advertising Message?
Marketing used to be art. Now, effective marketing looks like rocket science. Analytics, A/B Multivariate testing, CRMs and metrics are just a few ways entrepreneurs could craft their advertising...
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