General Business

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A few years ago, authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote a great book entitled “The Leadership Challenge.” In it,...

Today there are over 300,000 US companies actively selling into international markets. And despite all the current noise in the...

Which 10 companies had the best performance in 2018? Why did they perform so well? What can your business learn...

Under-reported last week was the passing of Wayne Huizenga, one of the truly great entrepreneurs of the last 50 years....

Everyday, business owners realize that certain approaches and strategies that worked in the past… …just don’t cut it anymore. Because...

I recently wrote that, when it comes to customer relationships, most businesses should NOT emulate Amazon, since Amazon’s margins are...

For so many very important reasons – pursuing capital to grow, positioning a business for a sale, recruiting new executive...

Innovative. Nimble. High energy. Opportunity – focused. Stuck. Ponderous. Tired. “Hanging in there” – focused. Which set of the above...

I recently moderated a strategic planning session for a Texas-based developer and distributor of specialty software for the financial services...

This weekend, I read The 80% Solution – a great e-book by famed business coach Dan Sullivan in which he...

Every business has a break-even point, which represents the minimum amount of cash to bring into the business on a...

When you’re starting or growing your company, you’ll face lots of challenges and unfortunately realize failures more often than you’d...