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As a collaborative team value, the ability to take calculated and well-reasoned risks is a foundation for building an effective organization with the capacity to learn about itself, to expand and grow. When fear is present, however, growth and forward momentum stagnate. This article looks at organizational behaviors and practices that both encourage and discourage an employee's willingness to take appropriate and well-reasoned risk. Risk is the fifth of six values that build collaboration in groups. Without risk being t6olerated at the cultural level, many organizations penalize people for thinking.

The Art of Leverage: 5 Secrets of Business Wealth Creation
What does it really take to make a quantum wealth leap in your business? Meet Jack. By the end of 2007, Jack’s business made a little over $820,000 dollars. Today, it looks like Jack’s business will close 2008 at five million dollars. What's his secret?

Lesson #2: Look To the Future
“We are targeting innovation,” says Page. “The dream as conceived 25 years ago has not been achieved. Until software becomes the ultimate tool for collaboration, productivity, and efficiency, the work is not done. And there's nothing more fun than doing that work.”

Making it through the Jungle: How Bezos Took Amazon to the Top

Bezos was hit with the hard reality of life when he came to the realization in university that he would never become one of the world’s great physicists. Little did he know that what the future had in store for him would be equally as impressive; from the garage in his two-bedroom home to the company’s global headquarters in Seattle that oversees its $8.5 billion in revenues, Amazon has become one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world. How did Bezos do it?

The Entrepreneur As Systems Thinker: Getting Down to Basics

In my last article, I discussed the unique quality that makes world class entrepreneurs different than simply owners of businesses. I said that true entrepreneurs are Systems Thinkers. I then went on to define that peculiar quality of systems thinking that true entrepreneurs are blessed with. (If you have not read that article, please do so. It will provide you with a platform of understanding to better relate to this article: Getting Down to Basics of Systems Thinking.)

Build Your Boats Before You Need Them
A lot of folks thinking about starting a business spend all their time doing the typical start-up stuff like incorporating, finding office space, and designing business cards. All good and needed steps mind you, but don’t neglect the most important step.

Pure Evangelism: How to Get Great Candidates
Any article that starts off by advising you to tell potential employees that working at your company is a stepping stone to great jobs in other companies is okay by me. Penelope Trunk does this in "Memo to Human Resources: New Ways to Get Great Candidates." Her recommendations include:

Imagine a Bigger Market and You'll See a Bigger Market
Scientists in two studies at the University of Virginia discovered that softball players and golfers who had good days perceived balls and golf holes as larger than the players who had bad days. The question is, Did this difference in perception cause the player to have better days or did the day's performance cause the players to perceive the ball and holes as bigger?

How to Quit Your Job and Start a Company
Over at the American Express Open Forum I just posted this interview with Pamela Slim of Escape from Cubicle Nation.

Smart Women Get Away
This article is about making plans to get away so you can develop a new perspective on your life. Changing your environment by taking a trip from 24 hours-1 month can create a whole new positive outlook on your life. It is essential that we take that time to honor ourselves and gain new insight.

Analysis Paralysis
So your probably reaching the point in your business where you’re still wanting to learn all you can get your hands on, but not sure how to transfer this information into progress.

Get More Done with On-Call Help

Get More Done with On-Call Help - How do you successfully grow your business out of the "one-person-show" mode? Hiring employees can be a costly risk, even if it seems to be the right answer. However, there is another answer – an intermediate step – that business owners can use as an opportunity to scale up their business without blowing their budgets. In this article, you will read about that intermediate step and why it is advantageous to you.

How Franchises can benefit from Social Media
Social Media continues to grow and provide new opportunities for professionals to showcase their businesses. Franchise professionals need to realize that they can utilize social media as well to get their brand name on the map. It is imperative to join the social media movement, not necessarily to get ahead of the game, but just to stay with it!

2 Reasons to Start an Online Marketing Business
There are many reasons why so many people want to start an online marketing business. There are two that I believe to be the most common to pull people into the online marketing business arena. We will concentrate on just these two in this article.

Dads Working From Home presents question #10: When should I give up?
Dads Working From Home presents: The 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions about Starting a Home Business. Question #10: When should I give up?

Kiosks Offer Advantages in Owning a Franchise
Kiosk franchises can offer a great low-cost way to launch a business and in fact, many owners will leap in with multiple locations. With a low start-up cost and low overhead, kiosks have terrific margins. Add in that the location practically forces a customer to interact and you have a winning business combination.

How Being A Mom Has Helped Me in Business

For most women, becoming a mother is a turning point in their career. It’s a time in one’s life that’s rife with challenges, frustrations, and uncertainties, but it’s also when many of life’s most rewarding achievements and miraculous moments occur. What many new moms figure out rather quickly is that the skills that they use every day while taking care of children are also very applicable in succeeding in business. Nurturing a needy newborn isn’t all that different from managing a high-maintenance client, and trying to juggle chores and kids can be strikingly similar to the multi-tasking required to manage a large list of prospects. Here are just a few of the skills that are fine-tuned and mastered the minute you take that leap into motherhood.

LIVING A PURPOSEFUL LIFE
As a personal coach I am surprised and still taken aback by how often I encounter people who regardless of their age, station in life; their position, the power they wield, influence and money they possess, are not in touch with the very essence of who they are and by extension the purpose or meaning of their lives, or to put it more succinctly the very essential reason for their existence.

How To Take Inspired Action
Inspired action comes from the higher level of creativity, trust and wisdom that you arrive at when you take the time to focus and vision.

What Does The Initial Franchise Fee Cover?
Franchising can be a confusing new world for anyone looking into starting a new franchise. One of the most important things to know, however, is what you actually get for the money you invest in your franchise fee. If you'd like to know what's included in the typical franchise fee, keep reading.

There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend: Epilog for the Ariba Interviews

Under the headline “Ariba is in demand claims finance chief” (refer to the link of the same name in the Web Resources section at the conclusion of this post), Ariba’s chief financial officer Ahmed Rubaie claimed that “a 71% leap in subscription software revenues is proof that Ariba has firmly transitioned itself into an on-demand technology company.” My initial reaction was . . . “well, that only took a year and a half.”

SEO ROI & The Conversion Rate Dilemma
What do legitimate search engine optimization firms charge? Like most things involving the Web, prices are all over the place but if the price is extremely low you can be assured that the quality of the service will match the price.

How to Establish Yourself as a Sales & Marketing Expert at Work
Regardless of your industry, experts make more money, have more contacts, and are sought out more than every other employee. If you want to see your earning power skyrocket you must establish yourself as an expert. It takes time, energy, and hard work but the end result is well worth it.

How We Sabotage Our Own PR Campaigns
PR coach Paula Gardner looks at the most common ways we often undermine all our hard PR efforts.

Smart Women Take the Leap

This article is about how women need to make a decision in their lives to “take the leap” or take action on an important Big Idea, dream or Goal. Sometimes we daydream about what might be possible in our lives and there comes a time when we have to make a decision to turn those dreams into reality and that means by “taking the leap.” “Taking the Leap” to realize a dream means making some changes in our lives in order to accomplish our goals. It means gathering support from people who can champion us and help us.

What does it take to lead?
Successful business owners have some key characteristics that set them apart from the crowd.

Get approved for a franchise
So, you’ve decided to start a franchise. What now? Once you have made that big leap, it is important to figure out if you and the company are a good fit.

Entrepreneurship and Franchising: Perfect Together
For years we’ve been reading articles about a franchisor’s desire to select franchisees that are not too entrepreneurial…that are in fact interdependent rather than independent. In order for most prospective franchisees to take the leap into business ownership…they need to develop an entrepreneurial spirit.

The Importance of Getting The Right People on the Bus

It's not a stretch to suggest that an organization has a greater chance of achieving success when it employs the right people. Obviously, the goal of any company is to hire well, but many small businesses mis-step during the process of seeking out the right employees. What are the characteristics of the "right" people? As a small business leader, what ideas do you need to understand and embrace in order to get the right people into your organization?

Money Is Your Servant
Money issues seem to be an ongoing challenge for many of us. We tend to try to control it, as if it were a beast. We put boundaries, rules, limitations, and goals in place to make us feel like we're being "good" and doing it "right."

How to Get a Call Back From Your Cold Calls
What’s the most common reason prospects stop communicating with you? They think your going to pressure them. They’re afraid that, even if it’s subtle, we’ll apply pressure to close the sale. So how do we reassure them we aren’t going to pressure them? By staying focused on the truth of the situation rather than on getting the sale. And by using language that clearly reflects this.

Starting A Home Based Business Online? Things To Consider
It can be fun, yet challenging starting a home based business online. For most, this will be the first time they aren't working at a company with a boss watching their every move. If you are tired of an overbearing boss, the idea of starting your own business from the comfort of your home can be very tempting.

Don't settle, find a job you love!

Are you happy where you are career wise? Do you genuinely enjoy the work you do? Many people express their unhappiness at their current job, but very little spend the time researching why. Do you enjoy what you do but maybe not the environment or people you surround yourself by? Or, do you wake up day in and out dreading the day and work ahead? Once you determine the source of your unhappiness you can create a plan to move forward.

STEPPING STONE GOALS
Stepping stone goals are like hopping through the stream of life in short bursts, deciding where we want to be and then looking around for our next step. They represent a shorter term commitment of perhaps only a couple of months to a year. These short term goals are easier to plan and achieve for those people who find long range planning difficult

Outsourcing-how to work less and make more.
Learn how to affordably outsource tasks you don’t like to do and where to find outsourced help.

How to Buy a Franchise – Step 1

What to do before you begin searching for a franchise. You’ve thought about it for years and you’re finally ready to make the leap into business ownership. It’s time to be your own boss, to be the one in charge of your financial future – your destiny. Because you are a smart woman, you want to avoid making mistakes along the way. You have so many questions: Will you be happy as a franchisee? Can you make the money you need to provide for yourself and your future? What kind of franchise would be best? Where do you even start, with thousands of franchise opportunities available?

Stop Singin' the Blues

Sometimes home based business owners need to hear some "tough love”. It isn’t necessarily fun to hear, but at times, it is needed to make sure that you are staying on track with how you should be running your business. I am worn out from hearing the "poor poor me" bit; the complaining over and over again. Instead of whining about your situation, DO something about it. Instead of making excuses about WHY you can't succeed, leap into action to change things.

Two Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs
In this article, we share two tips that helped our own direct marketing consulting business go from being only a dream to becoming a reality. The article focuses on two areas: 1. how to create the initial business idea, and 2. how to successfully market the new business.

Building Learning Organizations How Educational Leaders Roles Must Change
How the role of education leaders needs to change in the face of a changing corporate world.

Why Saying Well Done Works
We all like to be acknowledged, but for thousands, even millions of employees, such recognision never happens. From one day to the next, there are no positive messages for their contribution - yet as their boss, you can do this - and it will pay untold benefit for your business, organisation and, of course, you and your people.

Entering 2008 Thriving not Just Enduring

Dear Jane, What do you mean by “endurance” and what’s wrong with it? I always thought enduring was a good thing. As we approach a new year, determined to make and keep our New Year’s resolutions (this time), I want to encourage you to resolve to thrive, not just endure. When I’m interviewed on radio or TV, I am always asked what the distinction is. I use an analogy taught to me by one of my mentors, Brandon St. John, some 25 years ago. When I saw it used in Al Gore’s, “An Inconvenient Truth,” I was both surprised and pleased.

Hey Online Business Upline -- I Quit!
Those are words you never want to hear when dealing with your online business. We all hear about the 95% who quit, and as an upline in your organization, it is up to you to keep this from happening. I want to give a few tips to help keep your downline motivated, informed, and focused on their business. If they quit, not only...

Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t

More on Indifference from Tom
Darci, from her Comment: "... and pursue my passion. It was a leap of faith and there was no safety net to catch me if I failed."

Top 10 reasons to become an entrepreneur
Often would-be entrepreneurs hesitate before taking the plunge. Here are the top 10 reasons that might just help you cross over to the other side, and take that leap of faith.

5 Things You Need to Know Before Hiring a Copywriter
Not all copywriters are creatively equal. Before hiring someone new, do your homework…here’s 5 things you must now before taking the leap.

Got a great business idea and not sure when to make the leap from that nice safe job to your new business?
That leap from being paid by others to relying on your own business for an income is a frightening one – make sure you are going about it the right way.

Are You Frozen?
In an economic downturn, we are all like deer on a dark and windy road. Some of us see approaching headlights and instinctively know to leap into the woods. Unfortunately, others of us freeze. Unable to go left or right; we think that wherever we leap to will be worse than our current position. I certainly don’t need to elaborate on what happens to the deer on the road that freezes.

3 Simple Steps To Taking a Quantum Leap in Your Biz
Taking a quantum leap means transforming your business quickly. It means going from $200,000 to a million in a year. And if you want to take a quantum leap, here are 3 simple steps to get you started.

Owning Your Value: How Saying “NO” Will Attract Your Ideal Clients
I made a quantum leap in 2009, going from eight years of just below my six-figure goal, to making that leap above six figures. I came to a place where I was willing to raise my price on my own unique marketing system. I claimed my own value, and I started to say “no” to a bunch of clients.

Are you ready to work full time from home?
Are you thinking of taking the leap and working full time from home on the internet? If so, ask yourself these 5 questions first.

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