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Passive-Aggressive Behavior Is Useless In A Startup
If you are making the move from a big company to a startup, Scott Converse has a must read post up about passive-aggressive behavior titled Corporate vs. Startup behaviors.
Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca
My Pipeline is full, but the deals aren't closing!
Salespeople that spend large chunks of valuable time and energy attending multiple pre-sales meetings, conducting 'needless' needs analysis and writing proposals at the customer's request, are more often than not left scratching their heads in a state of ambiguity and confusion.
Are your sales people living in false hope?
Salespeople that spend large chunks of valuable time and energy attending multiple pre-sales meetings, conducting 'needless' needs analysis's and writing proposals at the customer's request, are more often than not left scratching their heads in a state of ambiguity and confusion.

Franchise Development Pro's Let's Use the Same Dictionary!
A very well meaning Director of Franchise Sales and a counterpart on the Internet attempting to draw advertising and leads for them just wrote about their "risk resistant" business. Rubbish (And, if you want a great recession resistant company get back to me...it has something to do with Rubbish!) I think we are all using the same vocabulary (we all use the word "risk") but different dictionaries. (I love the concept talked about, Spring Green, for the right market and the right candidate...but not just any candidate with the hope of "risk-resistance".)

Top 10 Tips for "Team Building" Success
The Apprentice television show revolves around the premise that a stable of young talent is trying to get a job with Donald Trump. In their endeavors they are challenged with weekly assignments. Be a leader. Sell product. Manage people. Ultimately, their goal is to win. But along the way the most successful candidates also learn something else. And that is without a team, your personal success is limited at best.
Leveraging Generational Diversity
The different generations at a glance and how to utilize the strengths of each
Managing Conflict on Your Team
Conflict among members of any group is inevitable. While you might prefer to avoid conflict by ignoring it, you do so at great peril. Avoiding conflict instead of managing it will contaminate the team’s functioning. That’s why effective managers harness the creative power of difference and manage conflict.

HR Consulting: Taking The Plunge
So you want to be a Human Resource consultant. And why not? You’ve paid your dues in corporate life. You’ve risen to the top of your profession. It’s time for a new challenge. HR consulting is a great career for the right individual—but the wrong profession for many. If you like predictability, the amenities of corporate life, a steady flow of people to your office, and a regular paycheck with benefits—then keep your day job. But if you’re comfortable with ambiguity, you thrive on change and uncertainty, and juggling multiple projects is what gets you out of bed every morning, then consulting may be for you.

DOES A LACK OF EQ IMPACT PROFESSIONAL GOALS?
Emotions limit our intellectual ability and sabotage our best interests! It is not a question of education & skill that will make the difference in professional achievement & success; it is a question of access. It is about our ability to access that part of the brain where this learning is stored in times of tension, ambiguity and change. Scientific research is clear, emotions come before thought. We feel before we think. Why is this important to understand? Our “Emotional Brain” or site of emotional memory has the power to flood our processing center, the “Thinking Brain” or site of IQ and working memory. What happens? It is like our brain’s computer crashes!

Leadership in Crisis
Top executive failure rates are estimated to be as high as seventy-five percent and rarely lower than thirty percent. A McKinsey study found that the pipeline for future leaders is broken. Only three percent of those responding to the survey felt their company developed leaders well. Why is this happening? Simply because leaders -- like the rest of us -- tend to judge their own performance significantly better than do those they work with.

Sales Training - Buyer or Seller You Need to Learn to Negotiate
Buyers and sellers alike need to sharpen their negotiating skills. Each needs a set of strategies to deal with competition and competitive pricing in today’s marketplace.Sales people fall into the trap of the buyer telling them they will have to match their competitor’s price in order to get the business.
Resistance to Change Is a Fact of Life.
It has been astutely noted that the difference between a recession and a depression is this: in a recession, your next door neighbor loses his job, in a depression, you lose your job. Impersonal change is an abstract concept. We can't be adequately prepared for the future until we realize that the changes impacting others will almost certainly affect us as well. This article provides information on resistance to change and how to do a better job of coping with change.
Break The Rules - Think, And Be Adaptive
Organizations and their leadership must be prepared to throw away their insecurities and embrace new unconventional thinking. They must do this to deal more effectively with situations, which are complex, ever-changing, and for the most part uncontrollable. Mark McCormack states it very nicely in his book What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School, when he says, “Have you noticed that the best-run companies all seem to be managed unconventionally?” He goes on to state, “Their success is attributed to breaking the rules, not following them.
“CHANGE! – Need I Say Anymore!”
As we navigate the 21st century, the workplace landscape will be littered with ambiguity, revolutionary change and opportunity. Many businesses will perish because they find themselves unable to constantly adapt to the environment within which they exist. Others will do well because they are ready to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves. The same will hold true for you the individual. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we want is for things to remain the same...But change and get better.
Attracting Buyers to Your Web Site
Are you frustrated by sparse traffic to your small business web site? Do the people who visit browse deep into your site or do they visit your home page and leave? Learn how to draw plenty of traffic from future buyers to your site.

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“CHANGE! – Need I Say Anymore!”
As we navigate the 21st century, the workplace landscape will be littered with ambiguity, revolutionary change and opportunity. Many businesses will perish because they find themselves unable to constantly adapt to the environment within which they exist. Others will do well because they are ready to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves. The same will hold true for you the individual. Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we want is for things to remain the same...But change and get better.
Job Stress What Can You Do Part I
Today’s workforce faces a multitude of pressures: deadlines, office politics, nonproductive meetings, conflict, job ambiguity, miscommunication, increased workload, inadequate resources, customer complaints and long hours. . . to name just a few. On-the-job stress can be quite costly, too, because it often results in increased absenteeism, reduced efficiency, low morale, reduced effectiveness, and high staff turnover. This is the first of a two part series on dealing with work-related stress…
HR Consulting: Taking The Plunge
So you want to be a Human Resource consultant. And why not? You’ve paid your dues in corporate life. You’ve risen to the top of your profession. It’s time for a new challenge. HR consulting is a great career for the right individual—but the wrong profession for many. If you like predictability, the amenities of corporate life, a steady flow of people to your office, and a regular paycheck with benefits—then keep your day job. But if you’re comfortable with ambiguity, you thrive on change and uncertainty, and juggling multiple projects is what gets you out of bed every morning, then consulting may be for you.

Are your sales people living in false hope?
Salespeople that spend large chunks of valuable time and energy attending multiple pre-sales meetings, conducting 'needless' needs analysis's and writing proposals at the customer's request, are more often than not left scratching their heads in a state of ambiguity and confusion.

My Pipeline is full, but the deals aren't closing!
Salespeople that spend large chunks of valuable time and energy attending multiple pre-sales meetings, conducting 'needless' needs analysis and writing proposals at the customer's request, are more often than not left scratching their heads in a state of ambiguity and confusion.
Communication Skill Areas
Effective communication is critical for building trust. This paper is about the skills required to interpret incoming communication without ambiguity. I address this from the point of view of the leader, but the concepts are applicable to all people in the organization.
Calculating Training ROI
When it comes to employee training, there is a lot of ambiguity surrounding return on investment (ROI). Many companies refuse to train employees because of this uncertainty, while others refuse to invest any significant amount of capital in the education of their workers. Others overinvest in employee training and wind up losing money and workers to greener pastures. What is the appropriate level of balance when it comes to calculating ROI of employee training?
The difference between a strategy and a solution
In sales there is usually confusion between what constitutes a "strategy" and a "solution". However, there should be no ambiguity whatsoever regarding when each should be presented in your sales process.

Who Has the D? Unclog Decision-Making Bottlenecks
Making good decisions and making them quickly is a differentiator of high-performing companies. And the key to outperforming competitors is the quality, speed, and execution of your decisions. Yet in many companies, decisions routinely stall. One culprit? Ambiguity for who is accountable for which decisions. Here is a tool to help clarify your strategic decisions: Think RAPID.
Frame Shift and Outthink Your Competition
According to Kaihan Krippendorff, author of Art of the Advantage, successful leaders can shift their perspectives more often and draw from a more diverse set of experiences, than the rest of us. They are able to handle more complexity and ambiguity because they recognize more patterns. More successful leaders are better able to change their perspectives than less successful leaders. Krippendorff calls this ability "frame shifting."
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