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How to Predict Behavior Like Abraham Lincoln Did
Behavior can be predicted in terms of a person's interests, group identity, character, and unconscious needs. If you want to predict behavior, do what Lincoln did...

Betting On Yourself
You have to take a chance, in order to have a chance--a story from the life of Martha Hughes.
Your First Client Is Yourself
Finding new customers is like kissing thousands of frogs. Doing all that kissing is a royal pain in the behind but no entrepreneur can afford to stop doing it.

Fear of Selling
How Bill Frysinger the engineer conquered his "fear of selling."
Independent Businesspeople Live Intense But Often Lonely Lives
How to survive the emotional challenges of running a business.
Q: What reports are needed to run a restaurant right?
Reporting and record keeping are extremely important pieces to the successful restaurant puzzle. Find out what financial snapshots are absolutely necessary to guage your restaurant's performance in this Q&A.
Effective franchise marketing
Marketing development strategies for franchise systems.

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We Have Met the Enemy ...
There are other coffee chains. And damn fine independents. The coffee is good at Dunkin' Donuts ... and McDonald's for that matter. (My next door neighbor will go to the mat defending DD.) Still, Starbucks is sailing in pretty blue ocean to this day. So why is its stock in the tank, why did founder Howard Schultz decide last week to can the CEO and re-take the job himself?
What is "sustainable growth"?
Everyone wants growth. Even if individual approaches vary - in strategy, style, culture or speed - few directors really want to see a reduction in revenue, and fewer want a reduction in profit. We all want more: even when our aspirations have evolved to include a "triple bottom-line" of "people, planet and profit". There are certainly some independents who want to work fewer days per year. Even they however still want to achieve more in those days that they do work, and wish to secure their future pipeline of customers. Before exploring the benefits of sustainable growth, let's begin by understanding what "sustainable business growth" actually means in practice. We can summarise this in nine key characteristics:

Effective Leadership - Your Personal Performance Scorecard
In any leadership role in business, many other people are judging you on your effectiveness every day. If you run a small business, a home office or a solo consultancy, or have a virtual team of independents, the same standards apply to you too.

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