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Great Questions about Business Coaching?

My coach yelled and screamed at me in high school, do I need that? Is business coaching touchy feely – therapeutic stuff? You don’t know anything about my business. I have been at this for xx years, how can you … Continue reading

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Business Coaching

                              Business owners and managers have plenty of work and lots toworry about. This seems to be the natural state of being entrepreneurial and liking to … Continue reading

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Proven Checklist for Business Success – How Do You Put Them Into Action?

I receive a regular email titled, “Management Intelligence…… from Edward de Bono and Robert Heller”[[1]] . Their most recent email was “Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success”. Here is the checklist they provided: “DO YOU… IMPROVE basic, measured … Continue reading

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Unhappy Prospects and Customers – a gold mine

A client told me a story today that illustrates a principle that every business owner or manager needs to embrace and act on. Unhappy prospects or customers are an opportunity to display your real value and win a fan for … Continue reading

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Podcast – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager

Be a More Effective Manager – stop answering those questions, seize your time, and it’s your fault

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Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager

Become a More Effective Manager – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps In the world of planning and strategy, there is a truism that too much planning, too much detail, too much analysis, leads to inaction, to a loss of opportunity. Along the … Continue reading

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Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit

I have used David Allen’s  book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001)  both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book’s approach to personal … Continue reading

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Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?

Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase “time management” returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with ‘time management” in the title or … Continue reading

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Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO

Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life.

This podcast lasts for 8 minutes 49 seconds. A written format is available here.

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How to Hire a Part-time CFO

In my earlier article, Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team, I discussed the reasons to add a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to your team. If you have not read that article you … Continue reading

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