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Out Read Your Competition

This is Tom Peters’ latest video message and it highlights the importance of “out-reading” your competition.  In case you’re wondering who Tom Peters is, publications including Fortune, the Economist, the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times have said Tom is the “uber-guru” of management and inventor of the enormous “management guru industry,” that “in no [...]

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3 Tools to Create Focus & Improve Performance

In today’s mile-a-minute, e-connected, global, frenetic, here-today-gone-tomorrow world of commerce, it is no surprise that many of us don’t take enough time to select and focus on our most important business objectives. Whether you employ 4 or 400, crystal clear focus combined with a steady cadence of accountability will dramatically improve your competitive positioning and [...]

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When the Expected Goes Out the Window

How often in your business do things go exactly as you expect? If you have prospects, customers, and employees your answer is most likely “not as often as I’d like.” Humans are imperfect and messy – so how do you and your staff actually behave when the unexpected occurs? In my first ever video blog, [...]

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Want Business Growth? Challenge Your Assumptions!

Assumptions make our lives easier. That’s both good news and bad. As creatures of habit, we seek efficiency through the use of assumptions in lieu of active thought to drive most of our behaviors. With few exceptions, what we do in any given 24-hour period demands little conscious thought because we’ve developed habits that help [...]

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