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Countless companies struggle to find the right software solution to meet their varied needs. The result is a tangled mess of software, spreadsheets, and systems. To find the right software for your business, you have to consider what you’ll need as you grow rather than what you need at this...

Let’s start with something counterintuitive: Everyone says you “need to learn to focus,” or “need to master the art of concertation.” The scientific reality, however, is you can’t “laser focus” on anything. It’s not something humans – or monkeys – are able to do, according to research done by scientists...

Human beings are Jekyll-and-Hyde creatures. More than any other animal, we excel at collaboration. We make friends, we form teams, we launch start-up businesses, we found countries. Yet social life is also full of conflict with our fellow homo sapiens. We lie, we cheat, we steal, we kill. What’s wrong...

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Report, there are over 2.5 million veteran-owned businesses in the United States, employing more than 5 million people. These businesses generate a massive $1.1 trillion in revenue and represent over 9% of all US businesses. As any small-business owner will tell you, running...

Today, perhaps more so than any other time in the history of American business, it is not likely that the owner of a family business will find his children eager to take over the business when it becomes time to pass it on to the next generation. There are many...

If the past year and a half have taught us anything, it’s that mental fortitude is key to getting through challenging times. Our personal and professional lives were more intertwined than ever this year, with most of the workforce having to work from home. Creating positive thought chains will bring...

In my ten years as a leadership development professional at a large organization, I’ve heard a manager question their employee’s mental health more than once. I have a vivid memory of a  young manager looking into my eyes and worriedly wonder if her employee was “bipolar” because she seemed to...

We hear so many famous quotes speaking of the “Law of Attraction”, yet if it was so simple as asking, believing, and achieving, then why doesn’t everyone have what they want? For years I studied manifestation. I asked for what I wanted and visualised me having it. I even created...

Stop letting manual document processing hold your productivity back. Enterprises handle an ever-increasing number of documents each day. And ever since the late Charles Geschke first introduced the PDF in 1982, an increasing portion of those documents are digital – yet they are still being processed manually. These documents –...

When I was running corporate teams of 130 people, I liked nothing better than to hear someone was busy. Back then, I’d say, ‘Great, that’s what we’re paying you for.’ Now, someone telling me they’re busy is a red flag to a bull. Annoying, pointless and the cause of mental...