Failure May Bring Greater Success
Suffering a failure or a set back, while frustrating, may not be the end of the world. Failure, as a matter of fact, may propel your business to even greater levels of success. It doesn't seem to add up, but I believe it does. Here are my reasons for believing that...
Do Bonus Plans Provide Enough Incentive?
Do you have fond memories of working for a company that provide you with a bonus package or a bonus check at holiday or review time? Do you feel that bonus packages will incentivize your employees? In many cases a bonus plan can backfire on the company if it's not...
Energize Yourself And Banish Winter Doldrums
We're past the rush of the holidays and have settled into the first couple of days of the New Year. It's sometimes easy to feel deflated once the hustle and bustle is over and in many parts of the country you're facing long winter days with limited sunlight. What can...
What Is Your Business (and Your) Personal Brand?
Quick, what's your personal brand? What is your business brand? Attendance at a networking event has likely taught you how to share your elevator speech -- the what your business is, what your business does, and how you can help someone with your expertise. For many...
Take Time Now To Look Back At 2013 And Plan For 2014
As you celebrate the holidays with friends and family, keep in the back of your mind, "the year is fast coming to a close." Why should you be thinking that? Because you need to take time between now and the first of the new year to look back at how your business...
Coaches Expand Your Vision and Capacity
A coach may be the answer... something to consider. Everyone is looking for the "Silver Bullet", the easy way to "make it happen". It does not exist. The answers you need may not be hard to implement, but they are not obvious. In fact, it is rare that you, (or...
Lesson In Leadership: Learn To Listen
As a business owner and business leader I should be the one who does all of the talking, right? That's my right as the one who's gotten the business to where it is today and I am obviously the most knowledgeable. If you think that, you need to take a step back and...
Making Business Partnerships Work
No entrepreneur can operate in a vacuum. Chances are you started your business because you have a particular area of expertise and have cornered the market on a niche at which you're extremely skilled. When you take a step back though, do you do all of the work...
Start Planning For 2014 Now
The end of the year is typically a time when business owners step back and slow down. I think it's the best time of year to spend time planning for the new year ahead. Many individuals and entrepreneurs look at January 1 of any year as that magical time to put...
Slow And Steady Wins The Entrepreneurial Race
If only you could be an overnight sensation, right? Even those "overnight sensations" that we read and hear about on Facebook and Twitter, likely were not so immediately overnight; They might seem like overnight sensations to us, the reading public, simply because we...