Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Application and development outside the classroom and structured training time. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners. Informal training of teams and groups.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] Humbled, validated and taking nothing for granted.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2019

Owning a franchise is an easy and affordable way of starting a new business. As a franchise owner, a lot of the heavy lifting involved in starting a business is already done for you. Franchisees can take on an already established brand and don’t have to worry about marketing themselves, as this is done by the franchise centrally.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Franchising is a the ultimate definition of scale where a business owner removes themselves completely from operational responsibilities in order to become a coach to others who wish to enter the world of entrepreneurship. billion and a boat that is larger than some countries.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Having the availability to set aside a few hundred dollars each month towards your business is significant when you have to consider paying for licensing, website development, social media support, etc. Examples may include selling products online, starting a consulting business, or purchasing a semi-absentee franchise opportunity.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Other interesting ideas Schramm covers: Franchising is often overlooked as a real entrepreneurial business and is generally not taught in colleges. You should operate with sufficient flexibility so that you are open to considering other ideas as you work on your original concept.”.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2024

Develop a Solid Business Model Every successful dryer vent cleaning venture requires a robust business model that targets its ideal customer and aligns with its objectives. They have low startup costs and recurring revenue opportunities since vents need routine maintenance to operate efficiently.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience. You can choose to open a physical store at another site, and you can either run it or operate it as a franchise.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I recently stopped for lunch at a franchise restaurant. Business development. I went to their website, where franchise chains allege they want customer comments. The franchise owner later called. We’re a franchise,” he admitted. Business marries the community that it settles with. Nobody was at the register.

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Steve Farber

JULY 24, 2017

1 place to work in Minnesota for four consecutive years, and more than 3,000 people – franchise owners, employees, and club members – have gotten the company’s running man logo tattooed on their skin. It’s been tabbed as the No. It’s hard to beat tattoo loyalty.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas. The real magic for me as a leader was understanding how to shape our strategy and operational plans by integrating ideas from others and empowering them to bring those concepts to life.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The move follows through with their “Operational Excellence Program” that they announced in October 2022, adding that additional organizational restructuring was necessary, highlighting that certain corporate functions would be supported by third-party outsourcing providers in addition to the Hasbro job cuts.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2020

Fortunately, there are a number of proven ways for restaurant owners and operators of all kinds to raise the bar higher. From focused franchise accounting services to one-off consulting projects, the required kinds of support are now readily accessible. There are Ways to Improve Any Restaurant’s Operations.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Develop your Expertise Daily ​ Becoming a true expert in any field doesn’t come overnight, it takes months and sometimes even years of consistent study and practice. Gaining the right knowledge is key to developing expertise so be discerning about who and where you get your information from.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It can assemble a team of professionals who are ready to work for business development and growing profits. Yes, the team is there to help you, but an owner knows best, and he should look at all aspects of the business and check that all operations are working efficiently. He is ready to learn and develop at any age.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2021

Things it could work for include IT, accounting, social media management and website development. As there is no other way to operate for your business, you know that you don’t have any worries of competitors doing things differently. Outsourcing means that you have someone doing that role for you as and when you need it most.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

From here, then you will need to contemplate whether or not you would prefer to start a business from scratch or own a franchise. There are certainly pros and cons to both; therefore, it will be based on how much responsibility you would like and whether you would like to try a new idea or develop someone else’s brand.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He appears to have removed himself from the day to day management of football operations. In any case, while there are many, many "don't do as I do" leadership lessons from the Chicago Bears, the one that is on my mind today is a failure to develop leadership depth on the team. You have to give him credit for all of that. 

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For instance, if you are ready to expand or operate a small business, you must decide when to purchase and plant the container. Not everyone is willing to work with large businesses and franchises, so a cozy coffee shop is a good choice. You should see a shipping container for yourself and decide what type you want to work with.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. An airline adopted Lean Six Sigma concepts to increase agility and reduce waste across the operation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Conclusion.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

Or, at the very least, a desire to develop great business skills. A big decision you’ll be faced with early on is the choice between starting a car dealership franchise or your own independent used car business. However, building a used car business from the ground up is not as simple as finding cars and selling them on.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. The Big Picture of Business – Developing The Talent for Business to Succeed.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Melissa Strait: When we founded Inspire in February 2018, our leadership team spent time developing a clear purpose and set of behaviors that could align our organization and our brands.? We are focused on developing an HR technology platform that enables finding, hiring, onboarding and developing the best talent.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

There are just so many factors you can’t easily explain all the factors unless there has been a huge amount of effort to figure it out (so for example, a huge franchise organization that is well run may well have a decent idea of the critical factors and how the are inter-dependent, but most organizations will not).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

And immediately, enterprising tinkerers hacked Kinect to allow images of real objects, including themselves , to operate in virtual worlds; to enable games of their own devising (one involves virtual puppets controlled with the player's hands); and to enhance devices that have nothing to do with gaming or PCs. (To

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Similarly, I recently met with Sanergy and Copia Global, Kenyan social enterprises using franchise models.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The work of this one man is said to have touched 40% of eye care patients in the developing world to date. Due to his experience as a government doctor with rural camps, he knew that he had to develop highly efficient, scalable, repeatable processes to treat the masses that came.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out? And have you heard that we have more mobile phones than any other continent besides Asia?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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