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Why Small Businesses Have Such a Hard Time Firing People
I was recently interviewed by CNN and was asked why small business owners find it so difficult to fire people. I don’t believe this situation is limited to small businesses, as I’ve worked in a number...
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Why Indifference May be Slowly Killing Your Organization
Indifference You know you’ve got an employee engagement problem when you have employees who are indifferent. Let’s call these people moderately disengaged. They’re not the worst employees you’ve ever...
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Why I’m Bringing in an Expert to Help Me Achieve My Objectives
Image: Flickr user Evalina Why do so many of us continue doing things the same way, although we know from experience that our objectives will not be met? Let’s take a subject many of us can relate to...
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Five Ways to Ensure Business Success in the New Year
To Your Success! The Christmas holidays are over and thoughts are turning to the New Year. Here are five ways to ensure business success in the New Year. Have a plan-Saying you are going to be...
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Nuggets from today’s Profitability Accelerator Teleconference
Small business owners and executives got their businesses off to a great start today. As some of you may know, I’m helping organizations kick their businesses into the stratosphere in 2012 and beyond,...
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What’s Stinking Up Your Business?
It’s winter here in New England, which means I have my annual cold. I can’t taste or smell a darn thing. Don’t feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for my children. Yesterday, my eleven-year old daughter told...
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Experience Matters
Yesterday, my husband and I paid a visit to Lowes to look at grills. We were quite impressed by the number of associates there to serve customers. That was until we discovered that none of these people...
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Are You Doing the Same Things and Getting No Where?
I stay in touch with my prospects and often find that nothing has changed since our last conversation, although they swear they’ve been working diligently on matters related to their businesses. Now...
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Hitting it Out of the Park
Lucky me! I was taken to a Red Sox game for Mother’s Day where I watched the Sox hit the ball out of the park. I got to watch first hand as player after player hit the ball (yes, we are talking about...
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There is No Magic Pill for Great Leadership
I’ve been interviewing a number of executives for my new book, The Magnetic Workplace (Nicholas Brealey, 2013) and so far my findings have been rather interesting. There is no magic pill for great...
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