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Business - How Vampires Can Help Your Business
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| Vampires are everywhere. I don't think it was a coincidence I finish watching True Blood and discover one of my friends and clients was scammed. Con artists and scammers are just another sort of human vampire. Here are some signs of common vampires that can be sucking the life right out of your business. |
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Independent Businesspeople Live Intense But Often Lonely Lives
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| How to survive the emotional challenges of running a business. |
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Cinderella and Passive Behavior
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Waiting for what you want only works in fairy tales. |
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LinkedIn and the Art of Avoiding an Asshole Boss
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| Since blogging about Bob Sutton’s notorious book, The No Asshole Rule, I have received a constant flow of emails from readers sharing their own tales of lecherous bosses and indignities suffered.
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Office Politics: Survival of the Savvy
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| Tales of political sabotage, power plays and turf wars are part of any organization’s history. Nonetheless, political competence is the one skill everyone wishes to have more of — but no one talks about it. |
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The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs
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| One of my favorite tales and rather timely, enjoy. |
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Entrepreneurship Part 2
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| If you can, there may be benefits in sticking to what you know. Learning by doing is an interesting process, but it can be a precarious one.
Whilst you are still at the “looking around stage” look at the unsuccessful as well as the successful businesses. There lies many a cautionary tale!. Thousands of new businesses fold because their owners did not establish or even identify either business or personal objectives.
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Bad News Doesn't Improve with Age
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| Got bad news to deliver? Start talking! It’s almost impossible for a leader to over-communicate during such difficult times as impending layoffs, leadership shakeups, news-breaking scandals, and mergers and acquisitions. This article provides a cautionary tale of waiting too long to share bad news. |
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Social Action Driving Businesses to Adopt Sustainable Practices
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| Social Action Driving Businesses to Adopt Sustainable Practices
Some businesses have seen the wisdom of going green ahead of public pressure, others are being cajoled out of their complacency by an increasingly concerned public. The following account is a cautionary tale for businesses that ignore responsible practices.
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My neighbor Charlie, just filed for bankruptcy
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| My neighbor Charlie, just filed for bankruptcy It was the prime topic for conversation this past weekend, so I suppose you could say this is a cautionary tale. What’s got everyone talking (and one or two of the neighbors a bit fearful) is that Charlie seemed to be doing OK. He had solo-consulting practice, advising retailers on supply chain issues such as transportation and warehousing. |
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What Happens When Money Dies
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| What happens when money dies, asks Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post is it will reveal the history of the German mark in the 1920s as a result of the devastating effects of inflation and provide a cautionary tale for US central bankers and politicians who play fast and loose with the US Dollar.
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Adventures in Customer Service
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| Funny, sad and all true tales of how NOT to deal with customers! |
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