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Strategy & Planning

Frameworks, planning rhythms, and the clear-eyed thinking that turns a reactive business into a deliberate one.

Strategy & Planning

3 Tools Every Entrepreneur Needs to Make Strategic Decisions

Making decisions in your business, especially with so much riding on that decision, is tough. Do you follow your gut?

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Mindset & Resilience, Strategy & Planning

“What in the Sam Hill are the Minuses & Equals Doing in Your Business?”

That was the line delivered by a petite woman with big Texas hair and a matching southern drawl that brought

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Mindset & Resilience, Strategy & Planning

7 Things the Pros Want Entrepreneurs to Know About Juggling

Small business owners are famous for juggling. Even though we juggle everything from bookkeeping to bill collections to business development,

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Strategy & Planning

Solving the Age-Old Chicken or Egg” Problem for Small Business Owners”

 For centuries, philosophers have contemplated the nagging causality dilemma, “which comes first, the chicken or the egg.” Equally perplexing for

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Growth & Scaling, Strategy & Planning

How to Pivot and Resolve Lackluster Results in Your Business

When things aren’t working as well as one hope or plans, it’s natural to push harder. Whether our push is

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Strategy & Planning

How to Ensure the Achievement of Your Small Business Goals (In Under 150 Words)

 Nothing is more exciting than the victory celebration following the achievement of a goal. For many small business owners goal

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Strategy & Planning

What Your Calendar Says About Your Priorities (And the Probability of Achieving Your Small Business Goals)

“Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.” That was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s take on priorities.

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Strategy & Planning

3 Sure-Fire Ways for Small Business Owners to Create More Time

 How many times a day do you say, “I don’t have time” or “I don’t have enough time”? Lack of

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