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Some leaders have a powerful presence, seemingly dripping charisma from every pore. They engage easily with others and give moving persuasive talks even under duress.  We’ve all met people whose

Strategic planning is a management tool, period. As with any management tool, it is used for one purpose only: to help an organization do a better job – to focus

Saturday, November 26th, is earmarked as Small Business Saturday.  In honor of that, lets take a look at twelve of the big benefits small businesses have on our economy and

Back in 2011, after returning from a business trip to New Orleans, I wrote this very article on the concept of Lagniappe (pronounced lan-yap).  As I return from another fantastic

How many of us have sat in bad meetings: no clear goals, no agenda, no preparation, no documents, no schedule, no minutes, no action items, no follow-up, and so on.

While there is no hard and fast rule, compensation arrangements for business partners often fall into one of 7 common strategic classifications.  They are: Equal Partnership 2. Lock-Step 3. Modified