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May I Quote You?
As an author, the question, “May I quote you?” is a humbling request and a great compliment. For anyone who is in search of excellence a good quote is fuel for our journey. It’s amazing how a short, simple quotation can quickly provide perspective, inspiration, comfort, motivation or insight. What a wonderful return for our invested time - take 10 seconds each morning to read a new quote and our day, maybe even our world, is changed. I wanted to share a few of my favorites which can also be found in the new coffee table gift book, The Nature of Excellence… “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth

Startup Principles for Success
Behind most great entrepreneur success stories is a long list of mistakes! Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. But rather than dwell on the failures, I’ve tried to extract a list of principles that embody the successes.
Leadership Taboos Exploring Credibility
Leaders are charged with getting things done through others, so we allow them great leeway. We expect our leaders to exert power, manipulate people and engage in political gamesmanship. We acknowledge their luxury perks and generous benefits. After all, most work extremely long hours. When they tout the merits of equality, collaboration and work-life balance, it's often a case of "do as I say, not as I do."

Start An Internet Based Business The Right Way
Important yet simple steps to increase your success rate as a small home internet based business entrepreneur.

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Stepping it Up: Nike Reaches the Top of its Game
In 1962, Knight decided to finally put his theory into practice. He didn’t want his business idea to fade away in the halls of Stanford. He was convinced he could make a go of his plan to import cheap but well-manufactured running shoes from Japan, and he wasn’t going to retire the idea until he had tried.

How does the complexity theory apply to business? (A Brief Dialogue)
Member Question: Has anyone applied complexity theory to business in a practical way? Asheville, U.S. My Response: The chaos theory and butterfly effect are interesting concepts in terms of the “complexity” of business. Over a number of years and through funding from the Government of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program I developed a theory called strand commonality. In the area of supply chain practice for example (although the term “chain” is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture instead of the synchronized architecture that represents the dynamic characteristics of different stakeholders within the real-world), one seeks to understand the unique operating attributes of individual stakeholders using an agent-based model.

Selling Your Franchise: What Are Your Rights?
Would you like to sell your franchise? Easy enough in theory, but not necessarily so easy in practice – the terms and conditions for selling your franchise are outlined in the Franchise Agreement, and Franchise Agreements are as a rule drafted with the interests of the franchisor in mind.
Tuition Reimbursement for Employees
Tuition reimbursement is often seen as a risk among employers. Some consider the act to be mere encouragement for staffers to head out the door after receiving modern training. Others consider the risks associated with supplementary education to be far from worth the reward. Still others simply refuse to support the further education of their workers on theory. Out of all of these reasons, however, there is not one with enough sincerity to dismiss this often-beneficial practice.
Why do I need a theory of leadership?
We ‘see’ via our minds not our eyes. We need understand ‘theory’ and ‘model’ as the conceptual template via which we actually ‘see’ situations. The clearer we ‘see’ the more effective we act: So better theory and models enables us to act more effectively.

What does leadership mean today?
THis article outlines the shift that has taken place in leadership theory and practice today. It describes the six new leadership challenges: vision, empowerment, inspiration,challenge, collaboration, recognition and modelling. It describes effective personal leadership and concludes with a seven step process and work sheet for leadership development.
THE ACORN THEORY
The Acorn Theory was first postulated in the modern era, at least in the public domain by James Hillman, author and psychologist, in his bestselling book; The Soul’s Code. It is Hillman’s view that one of life’s greatest mysteries is the question of character and ones destiny. In this theory he proposes that our calling is inborn and that it’s our mission in life to realize its imperatives. He has called it the “acorn theory,” the idea that our lives are formed by a particular image, just as the oak’s destiny is contained in the tiny acorn.

Leader-Follower Theory and the Transformational Organization
Leaders often seek the secret formula of leadership theory in their pursuit of effective organizational transformation. They desire a method that will aid them in efficiently moving their organization towards specified goals and objectives with the least amount of resistance. The goal of this paper is to address the leader-follower theory and its use in the transformational organization. This paper will address the attributes of humility and servant leadership and its contribution to the effectiveness of the leader-follower theory towards organizational transformation.

Commitment to Business: 3 Commitment to Make Now
The two best ways to learn are actually doing and then teaching others. It will help you increase your confidence in what you are doing or trying to learn to do. Theory and implementation means: Put into practice what you learned. -- It's all theory until you put it into practice. We probably have all gone to seminars. Rather online or in a meeting room. I call these learning events. It's not just about imparting knowledge. It is about you walking away with something memorable. It's about you and your learning.
Employee Empowerment
Empowerment has nothing to do with fatuous statements like “Our people are our greatest asset”. Almost all companies who say such things treat their employees badly, keeping them constrained and confined in rigid roles, supported by limiting job descriptions and masses of bureaucracy. Yet, empowerment is a relatively simple process (in theory, if not in practice). here is a simple 6 step guide.
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