In my opinion trust is one of the most important factors in our lives. Do you trust the people around you, your employees, your investors, and your significant other? Do they trust you? When you really think deeply about it, whether there is enough trust in your life gets pretty overwhelming, it’s enough to keep
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Check out the copy below from a new organization founded in my mind to be the activist arm of the groups mentioned. I am very excited that our community will have a voice on the national stage to counter the US Chamber and NFIB which in no way speak for me. This is a positive
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This Thursday I fly to San Diego for the annual fall Social Venture Network conference www.svn.org . It is always one of the high points of my year. Something I have really started to notice lately is that business owners who I tend to view as “successful”, tend to be emotional healthy and have a
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Business owners, do you know the five traits of an impossible to sell business? 1.Do not know the true value of the business. 2.Have not prepared the business for sale. 3.Lack of proper documentation. 4.Do not know all the methods to sell a business. 5.Do not have professional advisers. This list is courtesy of Tom
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In my experience and certainly in my belief system service is a vital activity for founders and executives of all successful companies. What do I mean by service? I mean giving back. It is plain and simple the world needs more than profit. We as humans need more than profit. I am not suggesting in
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“A habit can be a great friend or a deadly foe. It is certainly our constant companion, either pushing us onward or dragging us down to failure.” This quote is from an article by my close friend and performance psychologist Dr Virginia Savage www.savageperformance.net giving advice on how to increase performance for athletes. It the
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I just moved. This involved dealing with several large companies including Extra Space Self Storgage, Time Warner for internet, phone and TV, Best Buy to purchase a new wireless router and several others. Given who I am I did judge my over all customer experience and I regret to say it was not at all
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The Darwin Awards… Yes, it’s that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here is the glorious winner: 1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did something
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Firms seeking designation for solving ills http://tinyurl.com/m954w9 yours truly in the press today. I am very proud that I am a founding B Corporation.
I’d like to take a moment to talk about voicemail – or actually, it’s misuse! With communications easier now than ever before, it seems like we’re all getting sloppy. Consider the times that you’ve had difficulty trying to reach someone and wound up in voicemail hell, or those times when you received a rambling,
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