I guess I have a pretty healthy ego believing I can come up with a better way to build a business model. That is what makes entrepreneurship so fascinating. Someone can come out of what seems like ‘nowhere’ to suddenly bring clarity and change tradition.
It Just Takes Three
Today, I want to share with you the [...]

I was interviewed by Blog Business Success Radio today. I have added some of the text that formed the answers to the questions Wayne asked. Wayne did an excellent interview, check out the show:
You can download the show via [mp3] or iTunes. Visit Wayne’s podcast home page to listen to or download other shows. The [...]

Management guru Rosa Say has a great post titled “5 Things Employees Need to Learn—From You” and the five things she says employees need to learn from you:

Why you hired them.
How to work with you.
How to talk to you.
How you expect the customer to be treated, both external customers and internal ones.
Your vision for the [...]

"Management is getting people to do what needs to be done. Leadership is getting people to want to do what needs to be done. Managers push. Leaders pull. Managers command. Leaders communicate." – Warren Bennis, Professor of Business Administration, U. of So. California
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Do you believe in what you do?
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In building your business your ability to show the way, create a reason, motivate, and cause someone to follow your lead is what overcomes human inertia.
We face leadership opportunities throughout our lives. We do not always recognize them as opportunities because our context of leadership is based upon what we have witnessed or experienced.

For the [...]

What motivated you to write a book about buying a business?
Baby boomers, are just now beginning to seriously consider retirement options as the oldest of them start to turn 59 (as of 2005). For baby boomer business owners’ greatest problem is to figure out a way to retire and extract the equity that has [...]

Are you hot or not? Think you are hot stuff? Feeling pretty good about yourself and your business? Believe it or not there actually was a website that asked this question and people were allowed to vote whether you were hot or not. I wonder what your customers would say about your business? [...]

Do Your Own Investigation
Generally major malls, power centers or prime downtown locations will demand higher rent per square foot. Your real estate agent or mall management should be able to provide you with a wide variety of statistics. These could range from the average number of cars during peak hours to average daily [...]

It is the ability to get something done through people. Good management is being able to get the work done without devaluing the person. Successful employment for each person depends on the trustworthiness of the manager.
Employees are not tools you use to get the job done, then toss them back until you need them again. [...]