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Are You Sure What Business You Are In?

Most com­pa­nies believe they have a pretty good han­dle on what their busi­nesses  are and what they do. But in today’s world, that belief might be a lit­tle shaky and out of date.   Do you know what busi­ness you’re REALLY in? Most pro­fes­sional ser­vice providers believe they do. It’s accoun­tancy, or  con­sult­ing, or mar­ket­ing or one of dozens of other ser­vice...

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Make It all A Moon Shot

A ver­sion of this post was pre­vi­ously pub­lished in the Finan­cial Post At a con­fer­ence in Cal­i­for­nia orga­nized by the Man­age­ment Lab, schol­ars and thinkers from all over the United States chewed over what was required of today’s managers. Over sev­eral days, the crowd put together a list of 25 “moon shots for man­age­ment” — big goals for man­agers. While...

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The One-Hour Reinvention Plan

Every rein­ven­tion, whether per­sonal or busi­ness, requires some explo­ration. But, that explo­ration can too eas­ily become wan­der­ing aim­lessly. You need a map to guide you along the path. Recently I was work­ing with an entre­pre­neur on a way to start a new busi­ness. Quickly, it became appar­ent that he was pretty fuzzy on what he wanted to do. You see, he’d closed his for­mer...

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Reinventing Your Career As An Independent

Many peo­ple are leav­ing their jobs, vol­un­tar­ily or invol­un­tar­ily, and are begin­ning the jour­ney to becom­ing  inde­pen­dent busi­ness oper­a­tors. At first it’s not an easy road. Here are four ways to make the trip easier. So you’ve decided to go out on your own. You’ve chucked your job (or it chucked you!) and you’re going to be a con­sul­tant, inde­pen­dent...

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Seven Ways To Survive The Change To Your Own Service Business

One of the most dif­fi­cult parts of rein­vent­ing your­self into your own entre­pre­neur­ial ser­vice busi­ness is man­ag­ing the change from cor­po­rate to inde­pen­dent.  But there are ways to get through it. Let’s say right here that no one really likes change. They may say they do, and they may indeed like the idea of change in the abstract. But the details of change? Not...