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What qualities define strong leaders and managers? Knowledge and experience in their fields, certainly. But in our fast-paced and highly integrated world, communication, more than ever, is a powerful and decisive force for career success. Being good is no longer enough to be successful. Our communication style — how we connect
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As someone who has spent time in both startup and corporate environments, I’ve observed a key difference between them: Larger companies have lots of specialists, while startups are home to folks who are more often fluent with multiple areas of the business at once. Startups naturally live in a
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Companies ideally select their executives based on the prospects of optimum performance of the business. Along with the CEO, the C-Suite consists of the executives in charge of the functional specializations at work within the company: legal, marketing, technology, operations, and the like. There is an art to selecting the
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Most folks think that building a product or packaging a great service is the hardest part of becoming a successful business owner. The thought is something along the lines of, “If we can just build the web site, or open the restaurant, or create the widget—then we are going
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Language is a useful and ubiquitous tool. Just as the words in this article are connecting with you (dear reader), words are ubiquitous. Words are all around us all the time, and are in many ways a tool that we take for granted — language always being available to connect with
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It was late, the streets deserted and traffic-less despite being the middle of downtown Denver, home to over 3 million people. Colorado’s 62 year old governor emerged from the stone-columned civic center alone – without fanfare, entourage, or escort, and quietly eased his lanky frame into the back seat of
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Understanding the needs of your customers, coworkers, sponsors, investors, and other important people in your business life is important. Central to this understanding is the idea of Creating Value. Creating Value is at the core of our professional lives, and is the foundation of our ability to prosper and achieve
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Being a startup founder is an exercise in a strange and almost inexplicable physics. We are taught not to believe in magic, but looking at how founders create and what happens when they do what they do, incredible and almost inexplicable things frequently happen. Recall the familiar shape of a
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The classic corporate business approach for devising a business strategy is to allow a vice president of the company to put forward a plan – complete with financial projections and a slide show; then throw money at it to see what will happen. The plan would then play out for several
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When was the last time that somebody honestly and directly criticized you or your business? If you have not gotten guidance, feedback, comments, suggestions, or outright criticism from somebody in the last 24 hours, then you may have a problem. Feedback, in its various forms, is the basis of good
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As an entrepreneur, I am intensely interested in how business operates - not just here in the US- but in other countries as well. As much as business is universal, the perspectives and problems faced in other countries can be unique, challenging, and widely varied. Having recently spent several weeks
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Digital media and technology are ubiquitous today, which means we are presented with an inexhaustible series of messages and opportunities to be entertained and informed. The resulting state of information intensity is generally considered to be a major benefit of living in our age, and to some extent even necessary