Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

Several years ago we retained the services of a marketing consultant who gave us some terrific ideas for growing our business. Who would make the best “velvet hammer” for you? Accountability Coach Personal Development Personal Stories ProStar Coach Velvet Hammer' I remember one time in particular.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

I studied marketing at Northwestern. After graduation, when I was looking for a job, I approached the man who wrote the marketing bible, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. A book that readers of Advertising Age recently selected as “the best book they’ve ever read on marketing.” Life is like that.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. But too often employers hire entrepreneurs, not entrepreneurial spirit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Steve Jobs was a visionary when he started Apple, but his effectiveness suffered early in his career when he failed to mobilize his Board of Directors behind his vision.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

New production, marketing, planning, and investment issues, requiring a careful look, come all the time. I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too In my consulting, people tell me all the time, “We know…” whatever it is. Now let’s dig in.

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