This article came in the Duct Tape Marketing newsletter published by John Jantsch. I thought it was a great one!
The Ultimate Secret to Business Growth
 
Change is the ultimate secret to business growth

I talk to business owners every day that want to take their businesses to the next level, but are puzzled as to […]

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“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment, and you start to decline.”

– Andy Grove, Intel CEO

Thank you to Brian Tracy for sending this out in his daily newsletter!
Andy Grove was an amazing CEO […]

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The title of this blog is to be read in your best flight attendant’s voice, in case you didn’t get it!
They say that “it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, and only a minute to destroy one”.
I was thinking about this today in terms of one’s career reputation.  I think it’s a shame how […]

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The Sport of Business
By Mark Cuban

Mar 12th 2005 12:58AM
The Sport of Business.
I can’t go more than a week without shooting baskets. There is something about the feel of the ball coming off my hand, and the sound of the ball going through the net. It just feels good.
If I’m just standing in the gym, […]

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As a founder of a company and its CEO, I think every entrepreneur probably comes to a point where they are wondering what exactly their responsibilities are:
Am I an entrepreneur or a CEO?  Or both?
I don’t think most entrepreneurs think of themselves as CEOs.  CEOs are professional managers…it’s a job.  Entrepreneurs are visionaries that start things […]

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Some problems are easy.
The person who steals or is insubordinate gets fired.  The all-star that always executes and goes above and beyond gets the big promotion.
But what to do with the really-close-to-being-really-good performer that you just can’t get to the next level, no matter how much time and energy you spend with them?  In my […]

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The Denver Business Journal had a great article in their November 23-29, 2007 edition that included a business quiz.  The article was written by Darrell Mullis and Michael Higgins, principals at Stratactics, a Boulder, CO management consulting firm.
Here is a portion of the quiz they posted.  Test yourself and your employees!
1.  Pre-payment to a marketing company […]

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Ok, that may seem really obvious.  However, since I’ve been CEO of a company for a while now, I’ve realized that not everyone has a process for “getting things done” that they are comfortable with.
I personally was on a mission for years to find a system that worked for me.  I tried Franklin Covey products, […]

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If you’ve never heard of the company before, you should head over to www.37signals.com and check them out.
37 Signals designs web applications that are very simple and elegant yet powerfully effective. The one that really has me excited about using at my current business and sharing with our clients is Campfire. Campfire is […]

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We are going through our annual strategic planning process right now at Everon.  We are still two weeks away from our actual meeting, but we are already seeing great benefits, which gets to the heart of why a strategic planning process is so valuable:

It makes you take the time to step back and evaluate how you […]

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