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5 Questions to Make Today Your Best Day
As an entrepreneur you often start out doing everything yourself. Social Media, copywriting, building websites and landing pages, sales funnels, learning new technology, creating content... and so...
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Want to Increase Trust? Increase Your Say/Do Ratio!
by Bill Sanders, Principal and Sr. Consultant with Roebling Strauss Biz Stone was recently invited to speak at private gathering for one of our clients to discuss design thinking. What followed was an...
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Drive Operational Accountability During Your First 100 Days In A New Job
Team milestone management is the single most important operational leadership skill you can develop. It is the critical link between theoretical strategies and plans and activities that actually have...
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'A Day On, Not a Day Off': Celebrating MLK Day Through Service
Amidst the increased attention on the subject of racial justice this past year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an opportunity to reflect on our progress with civil rights in this country -- and consider...
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Let's Help Everyone in 2016 'Metaphorically Skip' With Every Interaction
Need to lower the stress from a frustrating workday or find a way to put yourself in that "happy" place? Learn from children and skip. I'm not kidding! It might sound silly, but it really isn't. The...
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Stop Trying To Find Yourself
I've heard people say that they're "finding themselves" about a thousand times. Each time, it's more excruciating than the last. At first glance, it seems harmless enough. Hey! You're energetic and...
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Which Tech Companies Have the Worst Interview Process?
Searching for a job can be a long and daunting task. You have to research companies, edit your resume, and carefully craft cover letters. Even then, according to Interview Success Formula's 2013 study,...
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Businesses Are the Greatest Platforms for Change
Every day I am reminded that we are living in the most exciting and transformative era in history. In my 35-plus years in the technology industry I've never experienced so much innovation, and at such...
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Hate Costs Workers Dearly
The GOP debate last week featured more immigrant bashing with the party’s front-runner, Donald Trump, reasserting his plan to construct a wall – this one a religious barrier preventing Muslims from...
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Four Books That Every Entrepreneur Must Read in 2016
With a new year upon us, there is no better time than the present to start actually abiding by that New Year's resolution to start reading more. If you are an entrepreneur, chances are you may feel...
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The Future of Work Is Now
Today I leave for the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the theme is the 4th Industrial Revolution -- and how technology is impacting our lives and that of future generations by transforming the...
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Mindfulness: An Holistic Approach to Business
The Academi of Life set up an amazing conference a few months ago. Renewal Organized was about "mindfulness in business". We may all think we've been pretty mindful of our work, and our work is always...
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Want True Equality? Make Everyone Powerful
I just heard a story that I adore. It comes from Ali Raza Khan, an Ashoka social entrepreneur and education reformer in Pakistan. Last year, he challenged 6,000 poor students across 74 charity...
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Design Philosophy -- Rules of Thumb
More than any other car designer, Chris Bangle understands how to create breakthrough innovation. Often controversial, he has been the 'lead dog on the sled team,' exposed to the cold arctic wind of...
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Unlike Clinton, Sanders Really Does Oppose Free Trade
Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are running against free trade, to judge by their stump rhetoric. But it's fairly clear that Sanders, unlike Clinton, is sincere in his opposition. Unlike her,...
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Is Ted Cruz an Anti-Semite as Well as a Hypocrite?
"Everybody understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal and pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage, and focus on money and the media." -- Ted Cruz, South Carolina Republican Debate,...
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The Right Kind of Belief
Yesterday evening an entrepreneur friend in his early thirties came to see me to persuade me to invest in his business, a hangover cure. What was evident was Michael's total belief in, and commitment...
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Managing Technology to Keep You in the Game
My daughter, Caroline, plays on a girls' travel hockey team that takes her all over the country. We often use technology to stay connected when I can't attend the games--facetime, calls, texts and...
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The Canary in the Coal Mine
The recent decline of stock prices on Wall Street did not take me by surprise. I knew the overall economy was headed into rough water when I saw that the ISM index for manufacturing in December was...
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Turnaround Tuesday? Checking Those Bounce Lines
Well, it's been a rotten month.All of our sectors are down, other than Utilites, and they are still down 3.4% over the last 6 months so that's only a strong bounce (40% of the drop) in that sector...
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