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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Business Success Checklist.

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Preparing Your Small Business For A Disaster

Strategy Driven

They are marketers, IT specialists, inventors, accountants, security experts, website designers, human resources, and much more. For many businesses, that is a plan for what you would do to get your business back up and running after a disaster strikes. Small business owners wear many hats.

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What to Do and Say After a Tough Reorganization

Harvard Business Review

You should stay in touch with departed colleagues “because those people are your advance warning” on what the job market is like and how you’ll fare should you decide it’s time to leave. “If the company is not doing something you feel proud of, you need to go to your contingency plan,” he says.