In a recent leadership workshop participants were asked to share all the things their peers, subordinates and bosses do that drive them crazy and make their jobs more difficult. Two full flip-chart pages were filled. Next, the same group of participants was asked to identify the things they wish they would do instead. There was [...]

Your future career is only as good as the quality of your extended network. A network is a social and business resource that must be cultivated and nurtured over time. Your network supports and sustains you in the good times, but is the key to your survival in the bad times. The time to build [...]

Kleenex’s Feel Me Kleenex recently took a very bold move, replacing their logo with the words ‘Feel me’. The UK firm Anthem was approached to create packaging that conveyed the softness of their tissues as well as generated new excitement and interest…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 101 >>> – Gold Vending Machine – Give [...]

It was not too long ago that customers kept their providers of goods and services at arm’s length. Things change!! In today’s world, if you want to be successful, you have to consider vendors strategic allies who can bring “value-added” to your company. The key is developing and maintaining relationships with your suppliers that meet [...]

Most business owners can define their “type,” based on the characteristics, mindsets and habits they have developed during their entrepreneurial lives. While some business owners undoubtedly are pleased with their situation and feel personally satisfied, others may crave an entirely different type of business ownership. They can attain any type of business ownership imaginable – [...]

Yesterday I stopped in a large Fortune 500 retail chain to make a small purchase. As I was checking out, the clerk was looking at an inventory list that she was working on when I came to the counter, she hardly looked up, and then proceed to check me out. She muffled an obligatory “Thanks.” [...]

For a female business owner, the benefits of living as her ideal entrepreneurial type are numerous, including a high level of personal contentment, a satisfactory amount of income, passion for her work, and an acceptable work-life balance. At Jane Out of the Box, in-depth professional market research of more than 2,500 female entrepreneurs has revealed [...]

Many leaders believe succession planning is just a replacement strategy. They think of it as another exercise, a means to an end or a human resources task. They couldn’t be more wrong! Succession planning is a talent and organizational improvement initiative that enables your business or organization to grow and thrive now and in the [...]

Hosting teleclasses is one of my absolute favorite list building strategies. Apart from being easy to do, it’s a great way to interact with my audience and get to know them, and also let them get to know me. But as with anything new there’s always a learning curve involved. Over the years I’ve developed my own [...]

Article Contributed By Sara LaForest and Tony Kubica A preponderance of managers and supervisors are overly familiar with long sighs and disheartened groans from their employees when they introduce yet another organizational change or a new initiative. And in the aftershock of a devastating recession, the sighs and groans are turning into fear. While supervisors [...]