Tag Archives: small business

What Do Small Businesses Want?

It’s deja vu all over again. Or nothing new under the sun . . . ? If you read the…

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What can you learn from Bill the Bull?

Bill the Bull stares at me with brown glassy eyes. He sits forlornly in the middle of a large, padded…

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On being spontaneous … with Polar Bears

“It’s 46 degrees!” Joe squeals, on hearing the weather report. (To the extent that a grown man and former champion…

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Where’s ‘some happy’ in your business?

The article screams “ICU Nurse Finds Joy (and Money) Launching Skin Care Line!” Alright, maybe it doesn’t scream, but it…

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What I learned from a lobster

“We’re like lobsters,” said Nancy. “If we don’t grow, we die.” Nancy and I are at a speaking workshop in…

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How to Avoid Business Plateau Syndrome

“There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’.” “It takes a village.” Or my favorite, “You don’t sharpen a knife against a sponge.”…

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What Are You Grateful For? (Don’t Be a Turkey!)

“What are you grateful for?” I ask that question in my pre-Thanksgiving issue of All Systems Go! I said: I’m…

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Learn to Delegate

If you look up the definition of “control freak” in the dictionary, you’ll probably find my picture.  It’s not in…

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The Importance of Recurring Income Streams

“You see this here doughnut? What you got is the hole.” I’ll never forget that sinking feeling when I heard…

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