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Make Your Customer Trends Pay Off

One way to manage the peaks and valleys of cash flow is to plan marketing strategies based on your customer trends. An important aspect of any business is identifying and reacting to trends; then laying these trends over your demographics in order to manage for peaks and valleys. This has been a normal approach for me when conducting a financial analysis on turnaround clients

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The Practical Case for Humility

Sure, there's a place for self-promotion, but history suggests overhyping your business can backfire. Whether it was your third-grade teacher, your beloved granny or your mom, someone probably told you to keep a good head on your shoulders and not get too cocky. Self-confidence is great, they probably said, but a reasonable amount of humility is important for both mental health and maintaining solid relationships

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What to Do if You’re Failing

Start-up founders tend to say everything's great, all the time. So what happens when that's not even close to true

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5 Everyday Lessons From LBJ

The nation's 36th president, Lyndon Johnson, offers five tips you can use every single day to make your business stronger. For the past 30 years, author Robert Caro has been working on a five-volume biography of one man: President Lyndon Johnson.

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5 Tricks to a Better Company Retreat

Strategy retreat: Two words that make even the toughest leaders cringe. Here's how to make the process less painful...and maybe even a little fun. It's only spring, but you're probably already thinking about next year.

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Is Sheryl Sandberg the Real Brains Behind Facebook?

After the Instagram megadeal and "hoodiegate," Facebook investors may be taking comfort from the COO's leadership. The hit movie The Social Network depicted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a genius among slackers

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A Top Employee Quit: 5 Lessons Learned

Spend time recruiting the right people. Then spend just as much time making sure you keep them. When an employee leaves Beryl Health--voluntarily or involuntarily--I generally believe it's the right thing for both parties

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Stop Trying to Change People’s Minds

Trying to make your team come around to your way of thinking is often a waste of time. Here's what you can do instead. Most people hate to be told what to do.

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A Hedge or Bet? A Matter of Perspective

JP Morgans recent multi-billion trading loss reminds us that matters of risk entail a healthy dose of consideration. Here's what you need to know.

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