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Gold medals or last place?

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You can’t win gold medals, no matter how hard you try, until you eliminate whatever is holding you back…

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“Cash Flow Surge” – book interview with Samantha Kelly

There are 101 different no-cost and low-cost ways to boost your business cash flow in my book “Cash Flow Surge”. We don’t cover them all in this interview, but we do cover quite a few of them!

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A spoonful of sugar

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In the words of the song, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But is that true for giving performance feedback to your people? Almost certainly not…

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A waste of $2,420?

Why employee experience initiatives often fall short and what to do about it instead…

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Not hitting your targets on purpose, SAS-style

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Great business leaders know the most important lesson would-be recruits to Special Forces are taught. When NOT to pull the trigger…

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Rapper’s Delight

You’ll never find a path to customer delight inside a conference room. But you can pick up some great ideas from the way one rapper’s engages his audience instead.

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The copycat’s conundrum

Think you can get better than your competitors by copying them? Well, it’s unlikely…here’s why…

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What profit margin should I target?

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Why obsessing over what other people are doing may not be the best approach for your business…

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Checks and balances…they’re a feature not a bug

Checks and balances are a feature, not a bug, as Wall Street is rediscovering in the wake of WeWork’s abortive IPO.

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The Business Disaster Zone…and how to avoid it…

Every spectacular business disaster has a very similar root cause. Here’s three classic examples, and what you can do instead to keep your business safe.

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