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How Does Business Achieve High Performance?
Want a High Performance Organization?For a while now we have been hearing a great deal about High Performance Organizations and High Performance Management and how achieving high performance will improve your business. In fact in today’s technologically advanced, global economy high performance is not an alternative it is a requirement for all businesses that want to prosper in the years to come. The terminology of high performance sounds pretty straightforward; if performance is at a peak then the business processes should follow suit and so then should productivity, profits, and competitiveness. Let’s investigate how it works.How does business achieve hig

he same boat you are; to find mentors who are ahead of you in the game and can help pull you up to their level.

One of my resolutions/goals for 2007 is to start a mastermind group. Starting a mastermind group doesn’t mean that I am assembling a team of super villains to plot world domination (that comes in Q3).

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their

World's Best Boss
In BBC's television program, The Office, David Brent is a regional manager of the Slough office of Wernham Hogg. He is an inept, politically incorrect boss. Yet, he thinks his employees love him and that he is the greatest boss of all time. He buys himself a "world’s best boss" coffee mug and uses it as proof positive that he is, in fact, the greatest boss.This television program is comedy and has even spun off an American version of the show. David Brent is not the world's best boss, not even close. But watching him and his antics is great comedy. He inspired me to write an article describing what really does make a great boss. Here are the characteristics of what

This is the time of year when our thoughts turn to ringing out the old and ringing in the new. It’s the time for wiping the slate clean and starting over; a time for new beginnings; a time for making New Year’s resolutions that, while spoken with the best of intentions, are usually forgotten by the time the black eyed peas are gone.

It’s the time that we look back at the carnage left in our wake over the past year and vow to do things a little different, maybe even a little smarter, in the year to come... yeah, right.

In our repentant little minds we believe that we can wreak havoc in our lives 364 days of the year and then on the dawn of the New Year come up with a bunch of resolutions that wash us clean of our sins so we can start fresh for the coming year. It’s like being a human "Etch-A-Sketch;" just turn yourself upside down and shake vigorously to wipe the slate clean.

While I’m a firm believer in goals, I’m not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions; mainly because it has been my experience that most resolutions are repeated year after year and forgotten by the time we sober up on January 2nd. Resolutions sound great rattling around in our heads, but when it comes time for the rubber to meet the road, most of us backslide off into the ditch.

As entrepreneurs, our resolutions often lean toward the business side of life. We vow to make more sales calls, to be nicer to our employees, to keep better records, to spend more time considering the bottomline - they are all resolutions you should be thinking about for the coming year.

One of your resolutions should be to network more; to mix and mingle with other entrepreneurs who are in the same boat you are; to find mentors who are ahead of you in the game and can help pull you up to their level.

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their

Zap the Power Monger
You know that one. He’s the one in the office who puts out all the great ideas then steps out of the way while you do the work, but comes back just in time to tell you how you did it all wrong. His interest gravitates only to Power and Recognition. He isn’t interested in doing the work, actually participating in the project, or actively becoming involved in the accomplishment. He only wants the glory of suggestion and the recognition of completion.Over the past several years’ one particular person has instigated several projects in a group I actively participate in. This person shows up suggests a project and disappears for the next several meetings, appearing o

and vow to do things a little different, maybe even a little smarter, in the year to come... yeah, right.

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their

My Boogers Itch - Good Marketing or Not?
If you've driven through Atlanta - or perhaps throughout the South - you've seen large, attention-getting signs proclaiming (among other things) that someone has gas. ???My husband was the first to observe this sign. As he drove along 285, he picked up his cell phone and reported, "I pooted.""That's nice," I told him, once again rolling my eyes at his childish behavior. He called back five minutes later, heading north on Peachtree Industrial, to inform me, "My boogers itch." It took some time for me to believe these were real signs and not just the raving of my husband, the fruit cake. (But he still does good work!)Signs like this are springing all over

down and shake vigorously to wipe the slate clean.

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their

Marketing Plan Tip: Create A Success Poster
Here's a fun way to help you achieve your goals that really works. Plus it's a little more exciting than just writing down a few goals, or an objective, in your marketing plan.This method actually brings them to life, and puts them in front of you everyday so you're constantly focused on making them happen.Create what I call a "Success Poster"What's a Success Poster?It's a visual or graphic representation of your vision of success.First You Need To Create A VisionThe first step in creating a success poster is to sit down, close your eyes and envision the success you want to create with your business.Ask yoursel

into the ditch.

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their

How to Evaluate MLM Products and Services
How to Evaluate MLM Products and ServicesThere is a short list of factors to look at before you decide to represent a product. I am going to first assume that you believe in the product and are enthusiastic about it. If you aren’t sold on the merits of the product or service, don’t go any further – you won’t be successful. Beyond that, your product or service must satisfy three requirements:1. Sufficient demand to consume existing supply.2. Product has a clear unique selling proposition.3. Product or service promotes repeat purchases from existing customers (customer retention).Demand and SupplyThere must be suffi

he same boat you are; to find mentors who are ahead of you in the game and can help pull you up to their level.

A mastermind group is a collection of entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to talk about their businesses. They discuss problems, resolutions, marketing, customers, trends, products - anything and everything to do with their businesses. The point is to listen to each other and offer input wherever possible, with the thought being that advice and ideas from other entrepreneurs will help you think of new things, solve problems, and grow your business faster than if you were doing all the thinking yourself.

So how do you start a mastermind group? How do you choose whom to invite into your group? Let me detail the formation of my own mastermind group and you can use that as a guideline for forming your own.

I started by making a list of those entrepreneurs that I did business with in 2006 that had the most impact on my business. For example, Paul Finley of FINS Marketing, has been my marketing consultant for a couple of years now. He not only handles all of my traditional marketing, but has also become my manager of sorts. He works to promote my columns and radio shows on a national scale and will be the point man for promoting my new book when it comes out in the spring. Naturally Paul was my first choice for the group.

Then there’s Jim Houk of DreamMaker Entertainment. Jim is my go-to guy for video recording and editing. Jim managed two large projects and several small ones for me in 2006 and proved himself to be an invaluable part of my team, so asking Jim to join my mastermind group was a no-brainer.

Next was Darin and Marianne Windham, of Windham Entertainment. I met the Windham’s when they were students in my entrepreneurial class at Biztech and we knew our businesses perfectly complimented one another. Windham became the booking a

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