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...

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...

Who Do You Think You ARE Anyway?

by | Thursday | Business Strategy

In order to write a vision for your business, the first step is identifying who you really are and what is important to you.Not what you DO or have been doing, but who you ARE.You may be doing things that are really not in alignment with what is important to you in...