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3 Surprising Ways Small Businesses Waste Money

Strategy Driven

When you are new to the business world, mistakes are an unavoidable element of your learning curve. Online marketing campaigns are easy to set and to scr*w up. While digital marketing tools are readily available for all to use and enjoy, it doesn’t mean that digital marketing is simple.

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Corporate Innovation Through Daring Personal Disruption

Lead Change Blog

Notice energy, speed of speech and movements, tone of voice, and other nonverbal cues such as eye contact, body posture, facial expression. The energy in the room is palpable; it even feels hot. People interrupt each other, laugh, learn and venture out of their comfort zones. The market is saturated, and so are you.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve. ” Beginning to learn better approaches by analyzing the wrong ways of doing things. The longer that success takes to attain has a direct relationship to how long we will hold onto it.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. In today’s job market you need to be ambitious and driven if you don’t want to get pushed out by others who spot gaps that could have been filled by you.” Shawn Cyne, Author of Brainsteering, tells us to forget the brainstorming.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. In today's job market you need to be ambitious and driven if you don't want to get pushed out by others who spot gaps that could have been filled by you.". Lakshman Rajagopalan presents What can you do about a culture of Mistrust… posted at Learning Curves.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.”