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Volume 5, Issue 10: Have You Stalled?

Leaders constantly ask themselves questions - we think the opposite – that leaders know what they are doing, but the more a leader knows, the more questions they ask. Asking good questions on the front end creates a great leader going forward.

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Volume 5, Issue 10: The Manager

Many people mistake management for leadership. Let’s be clear management involves creating effective control that focuses on accomplishing tasks involved in a business. While leadership involves giving guidance and motivation to employees, while having the ability to create a relationship and environment in which the employee is willingly able to apply their unique abilities to meet common goals and objectives of the business.

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Volume 5, Issue 10: Selling Online - the old rules of marketing still apply

For many established “bricks and mortar” businesses, building a complementary online presence is now an urgent task. In many industries, businesses are already well established online and aggressively pursuing domination of their respective niche. How is an online business different from a traditional bricks and mortar store?

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Volume 5, Issue 9: Client Complaints, Loyalty & Ongoing Influence

By the time Toyota recently issued a massive recall and halted production on six of its models for sticking accelerator pedals and floor mat pedal entrapment, stories were rife that people had been seriously injured and lives lost. It surfaced that Toyota was warned of problems three years earlier! The US fines were heavy and together with the negative publicity it means Toyota will now have to work hard at re-building their reputation.

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Volume 5, Issue 9: Ten Top Tips To Be A Leader Of Your Business

In my experience of working with over 110 businesses around the world over many years, I have been amazed at how often we are called in because the business owner has problems with staff or customers or suppliers or the market. Invariably our first meeting with an owner is dominated by the owner telling us all the problems he is facing and how everyone is against him. This victim mentality typically expresses itself through blame, denial and excuses. After hearing what the owner has to say, we will usually confront him with a simple, bold statement: ’Your problems have little to do with anyone else; they are ultimately a reflection of your own behaviour.‘

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Volume 5, Issue 9: LinkedIn For Business

LinkedIn is a social networking site for business, enabling professionals and business owners to connect with colleagues and partners across the globe. It is also a powerful business reputation tool. As of August 2010, LinkedIn claims to have the world’s largest professional network with over 75 million members. LinkedIn is a powerful social media website for business with wide adoption across Australia. According to ISP Media, in 2010 Australian membership reached the one million mark, making Australia one of LinkedIn’s fastest growing regions.

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Volume 5, Issue 8: Avoiding Business Insanity

In business, especially in difficult times, we tend to spread ourselves across too many areas. In fact many business leaders tend to micro-manage everything in the business, which actually puts a ceiling or a cap on the business growing or innovating.

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Volume 5, Issue 8: Don’t Mistake Movement for Achievement

Two decades have passed since we were told that advances in technology would mean we’d all be working less. It hasn’t happened. We may be all working more, but are we using our time effectively? Stephen Covey book First Things First contains a diagram which sets out four Quadrants of Activity for businesses. The first describes activities that are both important and urgent, like closing a sale, taking an order or dealing with customer complaints.

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Volume 5, Issue 8: Facebook for Business

Among today’s popular social networking sites, Facebook remains the leading tool for social media interaction. According to Nielsen (2010), 75% of Australian users have visited Facebook and about 59% have their very own Facebook profiles. They spend an average of 8:19 hours in a month on the site, 7 hours more than users spend on YouTube.

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Volume 5, Issue 7: Momentum

Momentum = Impetus, push, thrust, force, imulse, drive, vigour, propulsion, energy. (Webster’s thesaurus). It’s obvious that we all need momentum in business, career, or life. We are soon discouraged when things stall.

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