How Do You Add More Value for Your Customers?
How do you add more value for your customers? The Five Friends share insights you can use today.
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Jul, 2016
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Jul, 2016
How Do You Build Employee Buy-In?
Committed, engaged employees are the lifeblood of your organization. The Five Friends share insights on how you get their buy-in for goals and change.
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Jul, 2016
Don’t Be A Technology Company … Unless You Are One
Old-school, non-tech companies in every industry are wondering if they should reinvent themselves as technology companies. Conference presentations and business articles are telling them that there is no other choice considering the pervasive, disruptive presence [...]
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Jun, 2016
Disrupted? Being Down Doesn’t Mean You Are Out
Taxi companies have been knocked down by ride sharing companies wielding technology and ease that customers adore. To paraphrase Mark Twain, however, the death of taxi cabs and taxi companies has been greatly exaggerated. Across [...]
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Jun, 2016
How Do You Market Your Business When You Are Short on Funds?
Attracting new business doesn't stop even when you are short on funds. The Five Friends share insights on how to keep generating business without a huge financial investment. [...]
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May, 2016
Want to Flourish in the Future? It’s Time to Add a Nimble Mindset
You can’t influence – much less control – many of the variables that will affect your future. There is one, however, that is totally within your control. Your mindset, the perspective and thinking through which [...]
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Apr, 2016
Advice for Anyone Thinking About Starting a Business
Thinking about starting a business? The Five Friends share ideas that you need to remember if you want it to be successful.
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Apr, 2016
One Thing Every Entrepreneur Should Remember
The Five Friends weigh in with lessons that every entrepreneur should never forget. These lessons apply if you own a business, run a business, or manage a team within a business. [...]
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Apr, 2016
From Good to Gone: Three Ways Your Business Is Shooting Itself in the Foot
Sooner or later, your business will probably die. The statistics for a start-up business are well known—50 percent fail within the first five years. Even the biggest companies are not immune from eventual obsolescence, however. [...]
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Mar, 2016
Be Aware and Apprehensive Not Afraid
The scariest change and potential disruption on the horizon is the one that you never see coming. The most effective leaders and organizations minimize the potential for chaos by operating in a positive state of [...]
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Mar, 2016
How Perspective, Perception, and Baggage Inhibit Change
My father had a problem. He was the shop manager for the International Harvester tractor and truck dealership in the small town where I grew up, and his staff was upset about their pay. There [...]
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Feb, 2016
What Keeps Us Slow When We Want to Be Faster?
This message has been around for years: Speed is essential to flourish in a world where past success only ensures that you used to be relevant. Your organization needs to be faster to market, quicker [...]
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Jan, 2016
Leadership – Now More Than Ever
Why you? Why now? What makes you relevant? Options are everywhere and being good is the minimum expectation. Why should I pay attention to you rather than hit the “Next” button? Unfortunately, most people give [...]
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Jan, 2016
Seven Ways to Make Your Business Better This Year
If you want your business to be better, there are areas that will have to be different. If you want things to be different, you will have to change. For most businesses, the challenge to [...]
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Dec, 2015
Connect with People Where They Are To Create Buy-In for Change
Imagine this: An email arrives from the Chief Executive Officer of your company with the following message: It is no secret that the past few years have been a struggle. Our competitors are buying market [...]