Book Review: Success Built to Last

by | Friday | Book Review

By Michael Wade Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson mentions plenty of famous names but its main emphasis is on how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.Although some of the book’s findings...

What's Happened to Effective Writing?

by | Friday | Business Opinion, media

There are several poorly written articles circling the bowl on a daily basis, and this may end up being yet another one, but it’s alarming to me that professional journalists consistently botch spelling and grammar. It used to be newspapers, magazines, and books...

Internal Brand Building: Living the Brand

by | Thursday | Branding

By Derrick Daye on The Conference Board Increasingly, organizations are finding it critical to gain their employee’s understanding and enthusiastic support of their brand’s essence, promise and personality. They know that they must achieve integrity between what the...

Why Most Small Businesses Fail

by | Thursday | Business Planning, strategic planning

Michael Gerber, author of the mega-best sellers “The E-Myth” and “The E-Myth Revisited,” is one of the people I admire and respect and who has had a significant impact on me and my businesses. Although I have listened many times to...

Strategic Planning – The Three Key Elements

by | Thursday | strategic planning

For businesses strategic planning is a concept, a mind set and a process. It is looking down the road at what’s around the bend. When everyone around your place is focusing on what’s coming you will all recognize it in time to take advantage of it.As...