5 Essential Qualities of Effective Small Business Leaders

Small business owners and managers are oftentimes the most inspiring leaders around. These entrepreneurs typically don’t have the security that large companies do, meaning one small mistake could mean failure and bankruptcy. They also have to work carefully with extremely limited resources that are often stretched even thinner than they would be elsewhere.
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How to Stop Selling and Start Educating

I’ve just completed a workshop teaching branding to graphic design firms from Canada and the United States. As part of that training, confidence in selling is a crucial element in delivering branding to their customers.
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What Is Causing Your Project Failure?

There are various combinations of mistakes contributing to all project failures. While each project fails for its own reason, failed projects share many of the same pitfalls and mistakes. The following are some of the most common reasons project leaders experience failure:
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Help Your Employees Further Their Education

One of the benefits that some employers include in their employee packages is assistance with continuing education or tuition reimbursement. While it is not part of most benefits packages, it does get a lot of attention when it is included.
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Are Your Workers Educated Enough?

As a small business owner, you no doubt hope to hire the most knowledgeable, competent, and dependable employees that your personnel budget will allow. However, how important is it to you that your employees all be college graduates?
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Stats and Rankings on Schools Teaching Entrepreneurship [Infographic]

Notice the huge increase in the number of institutions offering courses on entrepreneurship. The question it asks—can schools teach entrepreneurship—isn’t one to be answered with statistics and rankings. Of course that takes a qualitative answer, sifting through what elements business schools can teach and what elements business schools don’t teach.
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