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Everything you need to know about leadership, you learned in Kindergarten

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Leadership lessons at their core are taught in Kindergarten and here’s what I mean. I will bet that you will see how much easier it is to get some extra time logged on a project when you appreciate that they have lives outside of your company. In business we operate under the old adage of the loudest person is the one that gets heard.

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You Are The Company’s Greatest Asset

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Until you are able to grow your company to a large enough scale where you can hire people equally talented then train them in every facet of the organization, difficult to do, you are in effect irreplaceable. All it takes is a boating accident on opening day to send you to the hospital and your company into a tailspin.

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Time For Women to Compete

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Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. That is right Ladies.

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9 Ways Women Can Combat Workplace Negativity

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If the media’s constant bad news about company layoffs, overseas outsourcing, and a decreased availability of jobs isn’t getting you down, the attitude at work probably is. In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities.

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You Are What You Say You Are….

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Leadership is an elusive quality and few people ever really get it, but as the figurehead of a company you are supposed to know what it means to be a leader and a motivator even if it wasn’t taught to you. Leadership is an elusive quality but interestingly enough the people who want it usually aren’t leaders. Lead by Example.

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Back to Basics

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As small business owners we routinely perform tasks that larger companies would associate with assistants and receptionists. As owners we are frequently so busy keeping the doors open, we really don’t know how the company operates. I answer phones, research client questions as well as conduct meetings and business development.

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HP Headed to Hotel California?

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HP has made some controversial decisions lately, but is Meg Whitman a great strategic move or the kiss of death for this once great tech company? HP has not had a stellar track record when it comes to leadership and their choices have often gotten them into sticky situations. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem.

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