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Entrepreneurs Should Donate Time to Help Good Causes Such As Combatting Drunk Driving Says Michigan Car Accident Attorney
Entrepreneurs and business managers should donate their time and talent to advance good causes. Michigan auto attorney Terry Cochran uses as an sample that entrepreneurs could adopt his campaign to combat drunk driving.

Fear is Making it Even Harder to Sell Insurance
As if selling insurance hasn’t always been a challenge you can thank our friends in Washington D.C. for making it even harder. Yep, thanks to the government’s failure to sound the alarm before it became a crisis, and ineptitude dealing with the crisis once it hit Uncle Sam has created a very special new client for you. Your new potential clients are scared to death and guard their wallet like a junk yard dog.

Zero Tolerance Means Zero Leadership
We have all heard the horror stories regarding zero tolerance policies in the past. Stories about a teenager being expelled for having a Tylenol in her purse or a five year old removed from the classroom for bringing a toy gun to school are recent examples that have generated buzz in the press. Most of us laugh at the ridiculousness of such examples and consider them to be the exception rather than the rule for today's society. Why do such policies exist and what purpose do these extreme measures provide the organization? Do such extreme positions provide any benefit? How does such a policy reflect on the leadership within these organizations? And finally, what might be the cost for an organization that must act upon the violation of such a policy?

“Building An Environment of Ethical Behavior. Ten Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach ”
Business ethics has become and has remained a popular news topic in today’s world thanks to Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Adelphia, et al. We have read and heard about the “waiving of the ethics code or standard” and where compromises were made to ethical standards for business advantages. And now we hear about zero tolerance for unethical behavior. It now seems as though the pendulum is swinging strongly in the direction of zero tolerance for unethical behavior based upon the reactions to ethics misconduct cases across the corporate landscape. Good business leaders have ethics, character and integrity. You have to create an environment in your business that allows everyone to operate in an ethical manner. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach on how to build an environment of ethical behavior.

“Building An Environment of Ethical Behavior. Ten Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach ”
Business ethics has become and has remained a popular news topic in today’s world thanks to Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Adelphia, et al. We have read and heard about the “waiving of the ethics code or standard” and where compromises were made to ethical standards for business advantages. And now we hear about zero tolerance for unethical behavior. It now seems as though the pendulum is swinging strongly in the direction of zero tolerance for unethical behavior based upon the reactions to ethics misconduct cases across the corporate landscape. Good business leaders have ethics, character and integrity. You have to create an environment in your business that allows everyone to operate in an ethical manner. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach on how to build an environment of ethical behavior.

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Lesson #1: Think Like An Athlete
“You have to have a great tolerance for pain!” exclaims Schultz in reference to the qualities that make a successful entrepreneur. “You have to work so hard and have so much enthusiasm for one thing that most other things in your life have to be sacrificed.”
“Building An Environment of Ethical Behavior. Ten Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach ”
Business ethics has become and has remained a popular news topic in today’s world thanks to Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Adelphia, et al. We have read and heard about the “waiving of the ethics code or standard” and where compromises were made to ethical standards for business advantages. And now we hear about zero tolerance for unethical behavior. It now seems as though the pendulum is swinging strongly in the direction of zero tolerance for unethical behavior based upon the reactions to ethics misconduct cases across the corporate landscape. Good business leaders have ethics, character and integrity. You have to create an environment in your business that allows everyone to operate in an ethical manner. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach on how to build an environment of ethical behavior.

Achievements Outweigh Education and Experience
Even on the best of days running a business can be incredibly stressful, not to mention overwhelming and exhausting. It's only natural that there will be times when you wonder if it's really worth it. Asking yourself the "should I just get a real job" question simply means that your human side is showing. And as a human you have a limited tolerance for things you can not control. And that's really where the stress of being an entrepreneur comes from
Bad habits in organizational culture
This article focuses on the misperceptions that occur when what masks as organizational behavior is, in actuality, bad habits. When bad habits are consistently ignored, an environment of tolerance gives way to the notion that, 'it's just the way we do things around here."
Getting my beauty sleep between emails
The ubiquity of email and our reliance on the web as an information source is well ingrained in our lives. We have little tolerance for slow servers and are easily frustrated when we can’t just hit ‘send’ with instant results. I recently had ample opportunity to sit and reflect on the speed of communication and how it’s changed so much in our lives. It was the change in rooms, however, that helped me change my point of view.

Develop a Tolerance for Risk
When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem.

What's in a Name?
The "name game" caught up with a colleague recently and she has been venting to all of us ever since. She has been doing business as a sole proprietor for almost 10 years [knowing that makes me shudder; I have operated as a professional corporation since inception] and, given the nature of her consulting practice, has never been overly concerned about liability. We all have varying levels of risk tolerance and hers is quite high.

Lesson #3: “To be successful, you need to fail”
Ilhan was one of those entrepreneurs who believed that the more mistakes he made, the better he became, and the better his business performed. Maybe it was his close call with bankruptcy in the early years of his business, but Ilhan had almost reached the brink, and managed to make it back. He had developed a risk tolerance beyond most of his competitors, and the confidence that he could always find a solution to any problem.

Are You Being Mean?
When you are mean to yourself, you disconnect from your power. Being kind to yourself is not just about pumping up your self confidence. It’s about having a no tolerance rule regarding harsh judgments, setting boundaries around your time and making decisions based on what will give you joy.

What is Your Customer's Price Tolerance Ratio?
You must begin determining the customer’s Price Tolerance Ratio, early in the prospecting and sales process or you will waste time chasing customers you ultimately do not want...

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