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Live A Model Life

Joseph Lalonde

It seems that there’s a model for everything. A model home, toy models, and more. But why do we have models? It’s simple. A model is an example of something that is or could be. This could be a model of a Vought F4U-1A from World War 2. It could be the luxury home you’ve been drooling over. Or it could be a, drumroll please, model life.

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4 Things To Consider When Building Relationships With Your Team

Joseph Lalonde

Building relationships with the people you lead can be tricky. You never know if you’re getting too cozy with the team or if you’re being too distant. Neither of which is a good thing. Finding that balance between being a leader and being a friend will challenge you. It’ll make you consider whether or not you want to lead! Photo by Joel Mott on Unsplash.

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Customer Experience: The New Battlefield for Business

Joseph Lalonde

This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. In a world where customers can easily take their business elsewhere, it’s more important than ever to focus on providing excellent customer experiences. According to a study by Walker, “customers who have had a bad experience are 61% more likely to defect to a competitor.” That’s a huge number!

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How To Develop A Full Business Security Plan

Joseph Lalonde

This is a contributed article. See our Guest Posting guidelines to learn more about contributed content. Protecting your business should always be one of your main priorities, but figuring out how to develop a full business security plan can often seem like a particularly tricky task. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might imagine to make sure you can protect every aspect of your company from top to bottom, as this guide contains some of the best ideas that you can utilize

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3 Questions To Ask If You Want To Build Integrity

Joseph Lalonde

I was recently reading an excerpt from John Maxwell’s book Developing the Leader Within You. In one of the chapters, he writes about the difference between image-building and integrity-building. These questions really struck me. I believe integrity is the key to being a great leader. The outward appearance, looking good, and other actions aren’t what make a leader.

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Do Just A Little

Joseph Lalonde

Our tasks can seem so daunting. We’ve got to clean the whole house. The financial statements must be completed. Or we have to lose 40 pounds. Wow… When you think about the whole, the issues before us seem so monumental. We don’t know how we’re going to get things done. Let me tell you. You can get things done by doing just a little.

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8 Reasons Why Sporting Events Will Always Draw Crowds

Joseph Lalonde

This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash. Over the years, there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not sporting events will continue to be popular. Some people argue that with the rise of technological advances, people will no longer want to go to live sporting events.

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