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Joe's Crab Shack in Hot Water
It has become en vogue for chain restaurants to decorate in a style that makes them seem more unique and less mass market. This brings up an issue that has hit Joe's Crab Shack, a subsidiary of Ignite...
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Who Belongs in Your 'In-House' Circle?
Who you spend your time with matters. It's likely you have been hearing a variant of that phrase since childhood. Your circle of influence will ultimately determine how successful you will be. I am...
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Rubbed the Wrong Way
Last week, I treated myself to a massage in hopes of alleviating some pesky lower back pain. Upon my arrival at the spa, I met Mary, my massage therapist, who guided me to our room."You get under...
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5 Signs You Should Invest More in Digital Marketing this Year
Is it time to increase your digital marketing spend? If you're like most businesses today, the answer is yes. How can I be so confident? According to Gartner, the average business spends 2.5% of its...
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The Human Capital Quandary
Imagine an aspect of your business model, be it a product, material, or piece of the supply chain so directly correlated with your success that without it, you are virtually assured of failure. Now,...
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'People Never Lie So Much as Before an Election, During a War, or After a Hunt.'
I swore to myself that I would resist the temptation. I fought the pull and the desire. I tried... I really did... But I can no longer resist... How can I NOT comment on the U.S. presidential...
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Show Me the Money!
TBLI has worked for the last 20 years to educate asset owners and managers about ESG (environment, social and governance) and impact investing. Through our conferences, seminars, salons, private...
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Your 5 Numbers to Profitability
Do you ever have those moments in life where you're pulled in 500 different directions? You know, the times where no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to see the forest through the trees? I've...
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What Germanwings Teaches Us About Risk Agility
What is unforeseen is not necessarily something that was unknown, but rather was not predicted or anticipated. By contrast, what is unknown is ambiguous and a mystery, so it cannot be predicted or...
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Size Matters: How BIG is Your Business Idea?
You've got an idea. You've always got ideas. But could your idea be great enough, BIG enough, to support a new business? Of course, some amazing businesses start with accidental ideas. Velcro happened...
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Being Your Brand: Why Social Media Matters
The Internet is a strange and totally weird place, where people pretend to be things they aren't, or worse, allow who they pretend to be on the Internet to actually affect who they are in real life....
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Five Years on, We Must Focus on the Victims of Syria's Atrocities
March 15, 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of the Syrian civil war, a battle that began in 2011 with scattered anti-government demonstrations and has since become a full-blown geopolitical and...
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New Teams at Work: International Women's Day Every Day
Once a year International Women's Day celebrates women's social, economic, cultural and political achievement. It's nice to have 24 hours especially for this, but honestly. It's 2016. Time to bring...
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Are You Sexist? 'No' Is Not a Good Enough Answer...
I saw a powerful video recently about the difference between 'non-racist' and being 'anti-racist', and how the two are very different things. It's a very important message but just in this instance,...
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The Year of the Angry Economists
The economists are really angry this year. They have cause. Leading presidential candidates in both political parties are trashing the trade agreements that many have devoted their careers to...
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What Do You Pay Me to Do?
All job evaluation systems answer the same question for employers: "Are these employees doing what we pay them to do?" In some sectors, this is an easy enough process. If I'm paying you to sell a...
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Big Brands Sell Their Souls to the Devil
I research entertainment and media trends constantly because of my work in the music and humanitarian world. I subscribe to Noam Chomsky's philosophy of "Manufacturing Consent." I may be one of the few...
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6 Leadership Traits Seldom Mentioned
Quick -- tick off the leadership traits that you often hear from conference speakers, read in leadership books or blogs, or study in training programs. I'm guessing your list includes these: inspiring,...
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The Key Reason Why Your Invention Isn't Succcesful... And How To Overcome It
You did it! You turned an aha moment into a viable product. To begin, I'm impressed. Most people are full of ideas and lacking in execution. That already separates you from more than 90% of people....
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Sean Talks Credit: In 60 Words, What You Need to Know About Credit Cards
By Sean McQuayMany Americans don't understand the ins and outs of credit cards and scores, according to the results of a recent NerdWallet survey conducted by Harris Poll. If you're one of them, you...
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