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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

As of October 31st, 2021, a mere 810 firms had enrolled, a long way off from the goal of 30,000 participants. One of the plan’s most limiting aspects is that it is solely available to businesses with a minimum of five employees, rendering sole proprietors and businesses that mainly employ freelancers or contractors ineligible.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Emphasizes that personal networking is an efficient and effective way to solicit ideas, access new sources of information, increase business development, and attract new hires. It is not unusual to see social media participants undoing an organization’s values and beliefs because they simply don’t understand them or can’t live them.

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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

While you can argue that the board didn’t set some of the previous problems in motion, they did participate in how the situations were handled during and after the fact. When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. High participation networkers. Business clubs. The Better Business Bureau. Small Business Development Center. Consortiums of business. It is lonely at the top. Hearsay and third hand. Uninformed sources.

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Developing Positive Leadership Habits

Persuasive Powerhouse

Three Ways To Restore Optimism at Work | Reflections for Personal and Business Development : June 16, 2010 at 3:21 am [.] Developing Positive Leadership Habits (aspire-cs.com) [.] Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Thought-full Thursday: Work with Love

Persuasive Powerhouse

I believe I encourage love of work in others when I demonstrate my own, share it, create the space for others to participate in it. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Business Leader as Community Leader

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Recognition is as desirable for the community as for the business.

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