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10 Tips for Developing Your Dream Team
When it comes to business, profit is important, but cash is king! The same analogy can be made when it comes to your team – hiring well is important, but retention is...
6 Keys to a Winning Team
Selecting the right people is just the beginning of building a successful team for your business. However, you cannot simply expect that your team alone will transform your business and...
A Guide to Effective Leadership
Leadership
The success or failure of a company lies in the ability of its leader to lead it through the different stages of growth that it will go through. It is essential that entrepreneurs know...
Big Picture vs. Nitty-Gritty Details-Why You Need One Before the Other
As a sometime student of military history, I am fascinated how what happens in the military has so much application to the business world. An obvious one is military planning. For the Normandy Invasion during World War II, the operational...
Great Communication, Great Team
Have you ever hear people say things like, “Management never lets us know what’s going on,” “Our questions and concerns don’t get through to them” or “They just don’t care." "They’re too busy looking...
How to Manage a Team of B Players
In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. Despite not even being a dark horse in the competition, and with a team of mostly peripheral and unremarkable players, they overcame France...
How to Recruit and Keep Good Team Members
Hiring the right staff is not an easy task. It is made more difficult and even more crucial when one considers the potential problems that may arise...
If Its Going to be Right, I Have to Do It!
Do you ever find yourself making that statement? Do you struggle with your staff delivering inconsistent service quality or handling customers with your level of professionalism? Do they sell your...
Labels: Great for Produce, Not for People
I love going into the grocery store nowadays and walking up to the produce section. In the produce section, virtually every item has a small sticker on it that you can use to remind what the code is so that...
Leadership - An Elusive Attribute Critical To Business Success
When a person is deciding if he respects you as a leader he observes what you do so that he can know who you really are.
He uses this observation...