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Do you do things every day that amaze you?
I very much enjoyed a seminar recently with a colleague Paul Dunn who is known internationally as ‘the wizard of wow’. I also love getting emails from Paul who often signs off with “be sure to keep on doing things that amaze you.” In this article are 5 ways you can do things everyday that will amaze you.

The Role of a Solid Executive: Sustainability and Growth

In order to not rely on the past and secure continual success, you the executive must do two things. First, you must ensure sustainability, which involves maintaining and securing the present day to day discipline of running the company and applying sound business principles. Second, you must ensure growth, which involves being innovative, and having drive, determination, and focusing on the future.

Six Recurrent Benefits for Social Response Capitalists: Some Surprising Solutions
Six Recurrent Benefits for Social Response Capitalists: Some Surprising Solutions

Social Response Capitalism Today and Tomorrow
Social Response Capitalism Today and Tomorrow

10 Simple People Skills To Successful Management
Getting the best from your people is vital if you are to make the best progress in your business or organisation. Much comes from the way you interact personally and there are just ten key actions to take to build great, fulfilling and productive relationships...

10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands.

Managing smart or fire-fighting?
So many managers at all levels are principally fire-fighting and simply not planning, strategic and thinking deeply enough to provide the best solutions for their own productivity and for the sustainability of their organizations.

Wellbeing from Healthy Thinking
We need to be fit mentally to perform our best and wellbeing is at the heart of that. Remember the advice on aircraft? Put on your own oxygen mask BEFORE helping others. Lok to our own wellbeing first and we have the snergy and skills to take care of our people and the business.

Sustaining Your Business through Self Leadership
We must rely on Self Governance when it comes to business sustainability and when the desired results are achieved go ahead and tell the world that success came without government regulation or assistance.

What smart leaders know about talent management and strategy
Smart leaders know that strategic hiring and deployment of their top talent are essential to managing risk, achieving business outcomes and ensuring future sustainability. It's the strength of your people that drives the rise or fall of your business-especially in hard times.

7 Ways to Make your business Sustainable

Every year, businesses are paying too much for the financial services that they need in order to run their business, whether it’s leasing, credit cards, insurance or even with bank accounts. Here are 7 ways to help your business pay out less to help work towards sustainability. 1: Evaluate long term financial decisions such as a capital purchase with several options 2: Negotiate your line of credit when still employed or when you have stable income 3: When leasing property for your business, always try to negotiate an escape clause. 4: Vehicle insurance payments are too high 5: Credit card Interest Rates 6: Donating to charities 7: Finance Charges on Debit and Credit Card Transactions

Sustainable Management - 10 Steps To Success
Getting the work done and delivering results is challenge enough for most managers. Those with vision see a bigger picture, where their legacy is ongoing success because their people have the skills...

Referrals for Business Sustainability
Referrals are your report cards for business sustainability. Indeed, it is tough to search for new customers all the time, so how can you retain your existing customers?

Canon Reaffirms Green Procurement Program for Earth Day

Canon Middle East commemorated Earth Day by reaffirming its commitment to green purchasing. They have reduced their use of resources and minimized their production of waste. Canon is serious about the sustainability of its own operations and they are expanding the green market by encouraging their suppliers to comply with environmental certification systems. To continue reading go to THE GREEN MARKET.

Communicating Social Values Improves Brand
Fortune 500 companies have recognized significant benefits by successfully promoting civic virtues such as Sustainability, Community, Sponsorship, Charity, and Environment. Although benefits like improved brand integrity are intangible, they can have a long-term success. Increase brand value by developing a communication plan for the organization’s social values.

Sustainable Business is Good Business
Sustainability is a worldwide movement that is changing the way we do business. Sustainability is a megatrend that reflects a general shift in thinking or approach affecting entire countries, industries, and organizations. Sustainability is the next transformational business megatrend comparable to mass production, manufacturing quality movement, IT revolution, and globalization.

Is Profit the Sustainable Goal?
In our new world, sustainability is just as important as profitability. The question is, how do we push big business to adopt that focus? Especially when that Secret Status Quo is still working in favor of the "big people".

Zero Gravity Business Principle # 5: Responsibility
We need to change the way we define success - in business and our personal lives. Those definitions create some of the biggest and most dangerous Gravity around.

The Secret Ingredient: YOU

Want to create a strong brand, add to the sustainability of your business, increase your confidence and really enjoy being an entrepreneur? Just add the secret ingredient. Billion dollar businesses have been built on the secret ingredient. In your business the secret ingredient is "YOU" and your personal assets. It's up to you to know who you are: your strengths, your motivators, your values, and to apply those liberally to how you conduct and present your business. A good part of what attracts customers and clients is you.

Creating a Megatrend of Human Sustainability

Sustainability is said to be the new global megatrend. But the greatest global energy crisis gets little mention in this context - human energy. We are burning human energy at a rate far in excess of our ability to generate new energy. The signs are clear in every workplace and in the community - stress-generated illness, road rage, crime and violence, depression, divorce and suicide. There is a natural, unlimited answer.

Sustainability Coaching: How to Realize Long Term Productivity Gains in Business
Business owners and company executives want an optimized company, which means that productivity is at its peak. To achieve these, failure proofing by addressing these three factors is key. Productivity gains are sustained through simple but effective project planning, incorporating benchmark change management strategies and being passionate about the productivity goal and following through.

Workforce Sustainability...How Boosting Employee Health and Work Life Balance is an Effective and Profitable Business Strategy
Sustainability seems to be a real buzz word at the moment. Businesses are seeing the benefits of wiser, more energy-efficient use of our resources combined with recycling and other greener initiatives. But business is yet to really apply this sustainability concept to its most valuable resource...its workforce.

The Emotional Foundation of Customer Service
To serve your customers you need to first emotionally connect. Yes, you need process and consistency to create long term value, sustainability and credibility, but first you need to ensure that both you and your team understand the basics of emotional connection.

Should Special Effects Determine If You Have the Right Salespeople?
One of the answers we usually provide when we evaluate a sales force is whether or not a company has the right salespeople. Of course we must know, right for what?

Sustainability – the new criteria

What is your position on SUSTAINABILITY? What community improvement activities is your company involved with? These are questions, among many others, that my team and I are responding to for a Request For Proposal (RFP) document for a sales training project with a large Australian Corporation. This is the first time we have been asked to respond to these questions in a formal manner and legitimise our position on ‘sustainability’. As sales people and as business owners, not only are we being asked to legitimise our product offering, our service standards, etc. we are now required to articulate our stand on ‘sustainability’.

The Key to Power
Regain power over your own destiny.

Unsustainable Sustainability - Going green can be good

The environmentalists seem to be gaining ground now that Wal*Mart has begun qualifying vendors based on the degree of sustainable operating and manufacturing practices they employ. Green is here for good, but don't let the tears fuel images of profits being washed away by expensive materials and useless recycling efforts. Like it or not, green is good. But until you look at your business from a long term perspective instead of the on-demand environment we all seem to be chasing, all you'll see is expense. Slow down, read the article, and learn how to turn green into green!

Are you ready for Sustainable Selling?
With the green agenda comes Sustainable Selling. More and more questions are being asked by many about how we can best manage this relationship now and for future generations? I recently attended and spoke at the 6th CIPS Australasia Annual Conference (peak industry body for the Procurement Profession) where Sustainability was well and truly on the agenda.

Green Rush
The the economy is dead - long live the eco-nomy.

Are we limited by our view of success?
Given that women are a vital part of our community on so many levels it got me thinking about the definition of success and how often we find ourselves bound by the very narrow paradigms of others' definitions of success.

How to Improve Sales Training Programs with this One Word
Why are good sales training programs still being used when the results are questionable at best? Possibly the major obstacle is not being identified.

5 Must Haves to Increase Sales for Business, Executive or Sales Coaches
Would you like to increase sales for your coaching practice? Then check out if you have these 5 must haves to do just that.

Change Nothing...Expect the Same or Less
Can you change nothing given the present economic climate, and still expect revenue gains? Tough economic times have always opened new doors for the open minded and enabled business owners/leaders to not only survive, but also end up thriving as a result of new economic forces. Read about a new and innovative approach to remaining successful inside this new world economy.

When leadership is not enough

Some people see leadership as being the person in charge or the person in control. The mental image of a leader is the person with the most authority. But there are many examples of organizations and countries that have had leaders and not been successful. Look at the difference between George Bush as a leader and Tony Blair. Both were leaders of their respective countries. However, people largely believe that Tony Blair was more of a leader than George Bush. The truth is, failing organizations had people who were leaders just as much as successful ones have leaders. Hitler was a great leader and so was Saddam Hussein. They were not the type of leader that I would want to have in charge of a country I lived in or company I worked for, but they were leaders.

Understanding the Propose of Your Business

And just like building a strong house, creating the business/career (or life for that matter) that you love all starts with having a solid foundation: where that cornerstone is placed. Why do you have your business? What is it you want to ultimately achieve with it? Beyond the fame and fortune. What is it that really gets you excited and out of bed in the morning? Discovering the purpose of your business can be simple… and not so simple! It requires you to really delve deeply into the core of what it is you are all about… as an entrepreneur/intrapreneur as well as a human being. Recently I have been promoting and working with clients building their Sustainability Blueprints.

Entrepreneur Education: Hype Will Not Help You Succeed
Think of it this way, "the laws of attraction won't pay the mortgage". Too many of us were so busy wishing on a star we kept our heads buried in the sand as the economic skies were falling around us. So, the big question now? What is there to replace the frilly advice often filled with cotton candy?

Every Time Without Fail Focus Trumps Intention To Increase Sales
Much is written about intention. Yet, is intention that powerful when it comes to the goal to increase sales?

Why Discounting is Hazardous to Your Business
As a business owner you’ve probably been asked to give a discount. How did that make you feel? Your response to that request is critical to the sustainability of your business as well as to your confidence.

So What Is This Thing Called Coaching?

Without a doubt, one of the most powerful tools to maximize your potential to produce better results is coaching. A client may initially hire a coach to reach a professional goal or they may be looking to make a personal lifestyle change. We live in a fast-paced world with a myriad of changes happening beyond one’s control. However, taking a leap of faith into exploring your own potential puts you in control with more confidence. You already are! Awakening to meet your potential is an invitation to make room for who you are to flow into expression.

Is it Really Going to be a Happy New Year?
By all accounts, 2009 is going to be an "interesting" year for employers and employees alike.The question on everybody's mind should be:“Will my business flourish or flounder in 2009?”

Increase Sales by Selling Sustainable Solutions that Deliver Measurable Results instead of Benefits
Are you still selling benefits? Do you want to increase sales? Then consider selling sustainable solutions that deliver measurable sales results.

#1 Reason Entrepreneurs Fail (And What to Do About It)
Whenever entrepreneurs get into trouble with their companies, there are many things they can focus on to “fix” it, but there really is only one that trips them up. Always. Learn what it is and what to do about it when it happens to you.

Sales Coaching Tip: Stop Confusing Motion with Progress to Increase Sales
Are your sales suffering? Maybe, it is time to determine whether you are in the motion business or progress business?

Are You Paying Attention To Your People?
Being smart is no longer enough. It’s been proven time and time again that people want to be noticed for who they are as much as what they do. If an organization can’t support and grow their people, how in the world will potential clients expect them to do the same when supporting them and their businesses? Are you paying attention to your people?

Enterprise Readiness Keeps Success within Your Sights
Whether you are starting a new technology company or launching a new product, you typically have less than two years before you have to be profitable. For most, that means they have to be able to sell their products to large enterprise customers. Once the clock is ticking, many crack under the pressure. But those who embrace enterprise readiness are beating the clock and their competition.

Defining Sustainability
There are five levels of sustainability within an organization. In this article you will figure out what level your company is currently in, and then you can strategize how to get to where you should be.

Helping Sustainability Make Sense to Small and Mid-Sized Companies
Sustainability is fast becoming a business strategy that is being embraced by many industries and organizations. It means different things to different companies. Learn how companies of any size can make sustainability work for them.

The Opportunities of Sustainability
Sustainability is a sound investment and not just another way to drive up cost and diminish profitability. It is about looking at the big picture, doing the right things for the right reasons while growing a successful and profitable organization. Learn more here!

Revolutionize Your Business to Keep up With Rapidly Changing Trends

Our business environment is rapidly changing. The decisions you make are based on information and facts currently available. Should new and relevant facts present themselves, you will want to evaluate them and grow to meet the challenge of the changing situation. Your ideal as a business owner is to become more innovative and productive so that you can better compete and capitalize on social, economic, and environmental trends. That could mean implementing Sustainability as a business model.

Create Leaders for Business Sustainability
Is your business not growing as quickly as you like? The answer may lie in your leadership. Leadership in sustainable organizations is about results. Here is a commonsense approach to developing organizations.

Building a Sustainable Organization Through Your People
Does your company have the right culture to ensure its viability and sustainability for the next 50 years and beyond? In this article, learn about the seven key areas your business needs to look at in order to be sustainable for the long haul.

A Vision for Sustainability
Sustainability is a viable and proven business strategy, which takes into account economic considerations, governmental issues, as well as demands from customers and stakeholders. Can you describe the purpose of your sustainability initiative? Can your employees? Can your customers?

6 Ways NOT To Green Your Business
The amazing growth of the green economy is generating immense opportunities for entrepreneurs, but the experience of others still helps to avoid pitfalls and stay on track for success.

The benefits of coaching for the selfemployed and small business owner

A brief overview reviewing: - What is coaching? - What are the benefits to me - as an individual and especially as a business owner or self-employed person? - the value of coaching. Raised awareness. Focus. Clarity. More success, quicker, more effectively and more efficiently. - you get out of it what you put in! You can talk all you like with your coach, but its up to you to make it really work for you, and actually do what you plan to do. Your coach is there to support you and encourage you to achieve, after helping you find your best way forward.

CEO's are Becoming More Sustainable

CEO's taking on sustainable leadership and thinking will pierce the green ceiling opening the door tho innovation in the new economy that will produce sustainable organizations, energy efficiency, environmentally awareness, reduce waste, optimize capital (human, intellectual and economic)and optimize resources to produce value and a greater return on investment for companies and their supply chain.

OMG, My Bank Account Is Frozen, What Do I Do?
During the recent turmoil in Egypt and in Japan, we are reminded that in our modern society, there is a deep dependency on our gov’t, various grids, and infrastructure systems, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post is it will reveal that we all need to create an environment of sustainability to withstand natural, and man-made, shocks to the system?

Intuition As a Sustainable Business Advantage - 8 Ways to Make it Work
Ting! Author Arupa Tesolin talks about the core ways to start developing intuition as a sustainable business and innovation advantage. Our future may depend on starting to develop intuition as a Smart Skill so we can create more innovators.

Marketing and Business Sustainability
This article attempts to identify the relationship between Marketing and Business Sustainability

4 Random Ideas To Green Up Your Small Business
To be competitive in todays business world, think about incorporating sustainable practices and ideas in your overall strategies to stand out and remain competitive. This article presents 4 Random Ideas to Green Up Your Small Business.

Thriving on the challenges of change

How to engage and retain your best employees in difficult times The fallout from the financial crisis has been loss of face, wealth, homes, jobs, and/or businesses for many people. What disturbs me is that the financial crisis is not the root problem, the attitudes that caused it are. Greed, lack of accountability, stupid business practices, and poor legislation in some countries are no longer acceptable. In my view they never were. People engagement is one way to create the appropriate attitudes.

Sustainability is an outcome of intention, heart and mind set, and action
All outcomes are preceded by process. A key process for any outcome is intention, feeling, thinking, and action. Achieving sustainability is no different to any other outcome.

What’s YOUR Sustainability Blueprint?
How to authentically take inventory of your business from a sustainability standpoint and using it to better promote your business. This article explains the importance of authentic sustainability practices, not doing what is known as "greenwashing".

21 Secrets of Shared Leadership
A list of 21 leadership secrets provides you insight you can use as you continue to form your leadership core competencies.

Business Knowledge to Shape Your Future

We are living in a “customer driven economy.” People are walking into car dealerships with an internet invoice price list in hand and stating what they will pay for a vehicle and in some cases stating exactly how they want the vehicle equipped and when they want it. In this new environment; Time – want it now, Money – want it cheap, and Quality – expect it in product, sale and service, is the admission price to do business.

Seven Drivers of Organizational Success
The seven statements provided and what they imply set the stage for insightful and proactive thought. They provide the building blocks needed to enhance the possibility of creating and building organizational success. They are the “touch-stones” that leaders can continually go back to when seeking a higher level of personal and organizational achievement.

Sustainability Growth and Talent Are Key
All organizational stakeholders need to be thinking and driving toward the big picture, while still mastering the details. With this objective in mind, the organization must also build a dream team of talent. This allows the organization to be both compliance (sustainable) and performance (growth) oriented.

Judy Wawira
An aspiring young entrepreneur from Kenya talks about her businesses and what she sees in store for the future.

7.5.1 Institutional specialisation: Institutional design and capacity building
The debate about specialist training versus multi-purpose organisations offering a range of services to the poor is still unresolved.

Principles of good practice for business development support projects
Business-like and demand-led. The best BDS organisations at supporting MSE are like those MSE in terms of their people, systems and values.

Targeting women: Tenets of Micro-credit for Poverty Reduction
Is this gender consciousness?

The Art of Selecting Promising MFIs
The key question for MicroStart is whether it can equip and motivate those in charge of MFI selection to choose "small and promising" rather than "small and weak."

IV. Principle II: Prioritize Local Knowledge and Participatory Planning
Key Principles for an African Model of Microfinance

Faulu Kenya Issues KES 500 Million (US$7 Million) Bond to Assist Poor People: A Journey to the Capital Markets
Over the last 20 years, microfinance institutions in Kenya have largely developed through concerted grant funding. This situation prevailed up to the late 1990s when key donors started pushing MFIs to start moving towards sustainability in their operations.

Do you need a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program
CSR is 'fashionable'. it appeals. however, too many organisations adopt CSR as a 'badge' to demonstrate their altruism, their environmental credentials. This article argues that CSR is a business issues - not a badge of honour; it we approach it right, CST can help our bottom line.

2007 Global Brand Trends letter
A yearly letter Stanley Moss authors discussing last year's hot topics, and looking ahead to the next year in the brand discipline. This year Stanley looks into nation branding and "Borat", Mediology, Personal Branding, and branded conflicts. A must-read for practitioners and students.

A Stimulus for a Better World: Give them Sustainability without Compromise
Sustainability sounded good when money was flowing in. But now that the economy is broken, business sustainability is taking a back seat to business survival. However, now more than ever, this is a time to advance your business case for sustainability as a top-line and bottom-line strategy for not just survival, but long-term growth and profitability.

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