Birthdays

When you’ve experienced as many birthdays as I have, people probably aren’t surprised that I’ve chosen to write about them. But this Note isn’t about

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Falling In Love

What is it about small business owners that causes so many of us to fall in love with the people we hire? I don’t mean

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Fired Up

If you follow the logic of a business colleague and friend of mine, Mark, the unfavorable connotation so many of us attribute to getting fired

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The Cherry On Top

Who doesn’t like an old-fashioned ice cream sundae? They’re guaranteed to brighten the day of any child and to bring out the child in any

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Keeping it Real

Most of us listen to podcasts or read blogs sent to us by people whose opinions we respect. One blog I read is by a

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$400 Decision

At a recent program, one of my colleagues, Chris McQueen, and I were trying to convey the concept of executive growth by measuring the dollar

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Grocery Store Test

I was once asked by a business journal in Phoenix to comment on what I felt was a core competency of a company I had been working with for

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Futurists

Starting the new year by writing about strategic planning is a pretty sure way to lose your audience of readers. After all, strategic planning is

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