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14 Years In, What I’ve Learned.

Rich Gee Group

You need to prepare, plan, and save to weather the ups and downs of your budget. A huge company in CT wanted to license my entire sales training platform, I presented it and got to the top. Suggested reading: Make Your Bed & The Obstacle Is The Way It’s been a wild ride and I’m ready for the next 14 years! What did I do?

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22 Life Lessons And Quotes From A Story Worth Living

Joseph Lalonde

That book was Wild At Heart by John Eldredge. What we do can inspire others : I’ve already mentioned that John’s book Wild At Heart changed my life. They also knew that they could make this happen on a budget. Get training : Dan Allender sought out training for off-road motorcycling. Be ready for it.

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Change Management Lessons from Eating Snakes and Rats

Lead Change Blog

After I completed infantry officer training and tour of duty as an instructor at the Army Infantry School, I was given (funny word) orders to deploy to Vietnam to serve as an infantry platoon leader with the elite 82nd Airborne. They perished rather than eat rats and snakes. Keep that perspective in mind as our change management back story.

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Recruitment Strategy

Strategy Driven

How do we develop a budget? Did you have a recruitment budget last year? If so, how did you do versus your budget? If you ‘blew your recruitment budget’, what did you learn from that experience? Develop your budget and your plan. If it is a priority, shouldn’t there be a formal plan to attract them?

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19 Tips & Ideas on Starting & Running Your Own Business

Miles Anthony Smith

If you’re making a big career change, gaining new qualifications or re-training will help to support your new business. While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. Get some new qualifications. Do your research.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Germany’s workforce is constantly trained, enabling it to use the most radical innovations in the most diverse and creative ways to produce and improve products and services that customers want to buy for higher prices. There is nothing a German can do that a properly trained and incentivized American cannot. An HBR Insight Center.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Cultivate the local media. Such involvement can lead to greater visibility. Start small and build up.