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Mentors, and Barbara Corcoran’s Surprising Tweet
While on Twitter recently this tweet appeared in my timeline by former real estate magnate, now “Shark” investor on ABC’s Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran: “Mentors are over-rated. I’ve been a mentor to more than 70 businesses I’ve…
3 Reasons Exercise is Essential for Entrepreneurs
You might be tired of hearing that you need to hit the gym, or you might just be plain old tired. That on top of managing your business is enough to be exhausting. After a…
10 Leadership Blind Spots That Stunt Business Growth
We all have blind spots – things you don’t see despite your best intentions to observe the world changing around you. In business, these can quickly take you off the growth track, even as you…
These 3 Practices Might Seem Obvious, But Are You Doing Them Right?
The business world has never been more competitive than it is right. With the advance of technology, this has allowed everyone, not matter education or income, to start a business and be successful. Business owners…
5 Ways Small Business Owners Can Benefit from Going Back to School
Many small business owners want to advance their education, but question whether they can find time to return to school. Weighing these factors is quite challenging. The entrepreneurs have countless personal and business responsibilities. Despite…
Time, Our Scarcest Resource
We all know the single thing we cannot recover is time. Once it’s passed, we can never recover it. Most everything else, we do, we can recover from. We can change our strategy if things…
The Benefits of Mentorship and What It Can Mean for You
In the early days of my career, I wasn’t enthusiastic about structured mentoring programs. I appreciated the advice given to me by more experienced co-workers and managers and was happy to help my peers when…
Bad Business Practice: 5 Things Entrepreneurs Do Wrong
When entrepreneurs hang out their shingle and open their doors for the first time, their heads are bursting with pressure. They are pulled in many directions and pushed by many factors. Self-employed though they may…
Avoid These 3 Bad Habits if You Don’t Want to Damage Your Business
There is a thin line between your image (in front of others) and the image of your business. Your business is a faceless entity; for that reason, when people think about choosing a service or…
Any Advice Can Be Worthless, or Worse
Ever get bad advice? Sure. We all have in our past. Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? I’ll…
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