Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

I recently sat down with Sarah at a local coffee shop up the street from her boutique, to drink some locally roasted espresso and talk about SaySay Boutique, which she started 10 years ago, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. You can do it without outside financing. She’s still a customer. The business needs a higher purpose.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Finance is the backbone of any business. As such, ensuring that your business’s finance department is up to par is important. Here are the top ways to enhance your company’s finance department: Implement Financial Software. It’s important to offer good remuneration and benefits to your finance employees.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Following are just a few representative non-financial questions that I recommend my clients ask of potential investors: What can you do for my company besides invest in it? The moral of this story is don’t get so hung-up on valuation that you fail to get the in the trenches expertise your company will need in future. Thoughts?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Leadership Engagement Well-Being needs to be on the leadership agenda along with everything else like finance and customer service. Well-being is not an expense, it is an investment, and without it, you’ll end up with ‘No People, No Profit.’” Participate in well-being initiatives. Leaders need to eliminate organizational speed-bumps.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. To understand how aviation has achieved process excellence, we need to back up a bit. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., They result in information hoarding and lack of communication. This issue can become a major performance barrier.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided What’s Keeping You Up at Night? David shares: “ David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared What’s Keeping You Up at Night? We recently conducted a survey of dozens of leaders and communicators, asking a frank question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

She’s tried everything: more recognition, contests, she even came in dressed as a superhero to try to get the team riled up. Each of these stunts worked for a day or so, but then the results returned to their normal mediocre state and the stress levels creeped right back up. Everyone needs to get where they fit in.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have live video above, and in the text that follows I’ll share my opinions on the best and the worst of WBF Day 1… Jim Collins kicked-off the day with everything you would expect from him. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

You can structure your finances to minimize the worry caused by debt. And you can make commitments to community, religious, or volunteer groups, knowing that you will follow through once you’ve signed up in advance. You can make exercise a standard part of your routine. Like us on Facebook.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Will it be a full-service shop or simply a place where customers can pick up online orders? Prepare Your Finances and Analyze the Market: Before opening a retail store, you will need to analyze the market and prepare your finances. – to set up your store correctly.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner. With TRY Courage, the courage of first attempts, the underlying risk is that your actions end up in?icting ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer. ” Follow them on Twitter at @letsgrowleaders.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Due to poor service and escalating fees from large banks, clients are now looking for alternatives to big banking and thus the rise in FX houses, private financing and the fast growing phenomenon of crowd-funding. Follow me on Twitter @bizjrchildress. GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In fact, when striving to come-up with this list I quickly came to the conclusion that while I attempted to use objective logic in making my assessments, the reality is that a list like this is mostly subjective based upon personal preference. You can follow John on Twitter @johncmaxwell. You can follow Tom on Twitter @tom_peters.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In the list that follows I’m going to share with you 6 leadership characteristics that require absolutely no talent or ability, but that must be present in order to succeed over the long-haul as a leader. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up. I don’t ever remember dogging-it again.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. Just follow the 15 rules above and avoid being the misguided change agent for solely for the sake of change.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Your stock as a leader (and leadership stock is measured by how much people trust you and will follow you on a journey) goes up significantly when you practice two simple “leadership optics” habits. Home, or your personal life, is the reason you go to work, because it is work that finances your personal life.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Following are a few links to other posts that deal with these topics in greater detail. maybe sincerity [link] Taariq Lewis Mike, as always, a great follow-up with great insight and additional resources. Many times some followers look for reasons to judge or excuse their lack of honor. Thanks for sharing Taariq: [link].

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Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

The following are some of the key skills of the future workforce that employees across a broad range of organizations will need to develop. Having a strong understanding of how to analyze reports will help professionals in departments from finance to HR to help steer their organization in the right direction. Critical thinking ability.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The finance website NerdWallet creates a “Fail Wall” where mistakes are posted, emphasizing that everyone fails and honoring outside-the-box thinking. Why not set up a “Fail Wall” in your own workplace? Hold a “F— Up Night”. If someone failed to follow through on a task, you obviously won’t want to throw a party.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In the end, we are leaders only if others choose to follow. Make sure your walk is heading to a great place; a place worthy of being followed to. link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. How does your walk prove it? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

That said, I have little use for social networking junkies who collect friends/followers/contacts just for the sake of watching the numbers go up, while adding little or no value to their network. All those followers and connections don't really have meaning except to make one feel important and/or popular. I Think Not.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2020

The thing that was missing — I could never declare full ownership of my work — someone else always had their hand in it mixing up the pot. Suggested reading: How To Win Friends And Influence People Plan for the ups and downs of work and money. You need to prepare, plan, and save to weather the ups and downs of your budget.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The following is a guest post by Doug Sundheim. I followed up. “I There were 5-10 elements of the goal plan that should have gone through a much more rigorous vetting and consultation process before they ended up on the list. I agree these are critically important to strengthening goals. But they’re not the whole story.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. Anybody can amass tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of followers just by following as many people as they can and waiting for them to reciprocate. News Flash: you can’t.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is best accomplished by leveraging individual talents not stiffling them. I would be less than candid if I didn’t admit that leading those inclined to follow is significantly less of a challenge than leading those who don’t want to be led. Say what you mean, mean what you say, and follow-through on your commitments.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

If the individuals placed in charge of executing key objectives, deliverables & results are not excellent leaders, you are simply setting yourself up for failure. And many young leaders lose focus on the team goal and focus on either being popular with their team or following the rules. What say you???

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

She wanted to ask her new boss for a later start date so she would have more time to “tie up loose ends.”. Consider these thoughts: It is ironic this issue tripped me up so badly because I believe my normally rigorous adherence to my Golden Rule was a major reason, from early on, I was viewed as a leader at Greenwich Capital.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

I have known many entrepreneurs that are exceptional CEO’s, but I have known many more that don’t measure-up and shouldn’t be fulfilling the role of CEO. I’ve heard it said that the role of a leader is to create and manage good followers. Original post by leadershipcoach [.] I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. It is seen my the followers ABOUT the followers. However worse than the CEO with no vision, is a CEO with the wrong vision. Thank Bridget.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I agree that actions speak louder than words and lead by example is a great way to generate committed followers. They're the ones on behalf of the team who step up and do a faceplant with an oncoming tomato. You bring up some great points about leadership and responsibility. Thanks, Sami impassioned Hi Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the text that follows you’ll find the truth about toxic cultures… A toxic work environment thrives off of everything that great leadership stands in opposition to. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If someone comes to you about a problem with another person, immediately redirect that individual back to the person in question. Put simply, good leaders don’t tolerate gossip. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. .:) I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The hierarchy of knowledge is as follows: Gut Instincts : This is an experiential and/or emotional filter that may often times have no current underpinning of hard analytical support. One thing we were taught was that making a decision and following it is very important. Is the source reliable and credible? Thanks for stopping by Joe.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you take what follows to heart, it might just change your world. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy. Form this action habit, the leaders heart will eventually melt and the feeling is sure to follow. Starting to get my drift?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you’re not tracking with me yet, ask yourself the following questions: Do you send an email when you should make a phone call, or worse, do you hide behind the phone when you should be face-to-face? You brought up what is in my opinion one of the most dangerous statements in business: "that's what we've always done."

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

If you follow this advice not only will you become better informed, but you’ll also become more popular with those whom you interact with. You’ll also notice that when intelligent people do speak-up it’s not to ramble-on incoherently or incessantly, but usually to ask a question so that they can elicit even more information.

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