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Four Questions to Ask Before Scaling Your Business

Strategy Driven

Question 2: How large is the target market for your solution? While each entrepreneur needs to answer for him or herself the question: how large a market needs to be to be worth their attention? The entrepreneur may be smarter about a given solution, but the market is always smarter about their problems.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3.

Strategy Driven

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Many business plans leave out the community component or treat it lightly deeming it disconnected to the business purpose. Many business plans leave out the community component or treat it lightly deeming it disconnected to the business purpose.

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Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

Great Leadership By Dan

In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Challenges for Mid-Market Companies. At the same time, many mid-market companies often wait until it is too late to successfully identify and develop their next CEO.

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Put Your Customers on Stage

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic presenters are nice and crisply articulated messages are wonderful, but one critical success factor stands out above all others: The best customer events put the best customers on stage. Make their engagement — not your messaging — the core of your event planning.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. Implementation criteria.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. The questions you could ask during your year-end assessment are endless.

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My 12 “Must Read” Best Leadership Books for 2014

The Empowered Buisness

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. EXECUTING YOUR PLAN & ACHIEVING RESULTS. • What are we not doing that we need to do? Drum roll please ….

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