Interview with Sustainable Packaging Specialist Dennis Salazar
Dennis Salazar is the founder and president of Salazar Packaging, Inc. He recently invented and introduced a new industrial product, the Globe Guard® Reusable Box. If you've ever tried, you know how difficult rolling out a new product is. Still, innovation is a phenomenal way for a small firm to differentiate itself and penetrate
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Interview with Brad Clemmons, Apex Pumping Equipment
Brad Clemmons is my friend, and owner of Apex Pumping Equipment. Brad's firm sells industrial pumps, fire pumps, water purification systems, and related services. While some might say this is a rather ordinary business, Brad makes it extraordinary by virtue of his enthusiasm, imagination, and vision. He was nice enough to answer a few
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Kay Plantes is a brilliant strategic thinker and writer, published author, consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, and on top of that, a genuinely nice human being. I've gotten to know Kay over the last couple years helping her launch her blog. Thank you, Kay, for sharing your ideas with us today. Note: This is the first in a series on Innovation in
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Guest Post by Adrienne Carlson
Almost everything’s done online these days; with the virtual world slowly taking over the real one, more and more people are living amidst the trillions of zeroes and ones that are floating around in cyberspace. In fact, they prefer to do so, because it’s more convenient and mostly free. The Internet is a great place if
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Strategic Planning, or the Art of Knowing Where Now Is
For the last year or so, business conditions have been turbulent, to say the least. Quite difficult to plan your next step when you could be walking off a cliff or taking your first step upward to the promised land.
One of the biggest mental traps of strategic planning - or
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"Each of us will be looking at real world tools and strategies that can drive a company, idea or you forward in the face of a world seemingly gone mad." - Fred Schlegel
How Do You Make a Strategic Plan When the Only Certainty Is Uncertainty?
Bill Welter, Kay Plantes, and Fred Schlegel are three business strategists and bloggers who really make
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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeIn business, the enemy of success is stagnation. When business is flat and the stock market ho-hum, companies like to go into a holding pattern. It's when the market swings - up or down - that opportunities for growth present themselves.
In a downturn like we're experiencing now, mediocrity is not an option. Uncomfortable? Yes. Bad?
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Today is Blog Action Day 2008, and the topic is a most serious one - poverty. With dark economic clouds descending, this topic, unfortunately, couldn't be more apt.
Haves and Have-Nots
The cartoon above is one I created around the words of G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton was an Englishman of the early 20th century, a brilliant journalist, essayist, novelist, and poet. He held
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