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New Approaches to Business for a New Year
Posted on: Jan 23, 2012
Every December when we are spending time being grateful for our families, friends and business associates, I also contemplate in what ways might I provide more meaningful value to our clients and associates. After diving into this question, I want to put forth three ideas that I have been working...
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Strategic Planning for a Changing World
Posted on: Jan 17, 2012
For a company, strategic planning refers to the mechanism by which the organization produces a plan for the future and an attempt to predict the desired outcomes of that plan. In short, it provides a pathway to direct a company to its ‘North Star,’ or guiding principles, and how to get there. If...
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BA or BE, What’s the Difference?
Posted on: Jan 13, 2012
People both inside and outside the company ask me at least a dozen time a year about the difference between a Biological Assessment (BA) and a Biological Evaluation (BE). The easiest way to remember is to think about it in this way: The BE is ‘Easy’ and results in a ‘no effect’ and the BA is the...
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Still More Reasons to Get Outside!
Posted on: Dec 27, 2011
Last month I wrote a blog post about the advantages of spending time outdoors. In researching this topic further, I found diverse sources that tie even short amounts of time outdoors with improved health, learning ability, self-esteem, mood and thinking power: “The more high-tech we become,...
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Being Grateful IS a Business Strategy
Posted on: Dec 8, 2011
It is the season where we sit back, reflect and give thanks for all the good things in our lives. Personally, I have much to be grateful for: family, friends, health and satisfying and challenging work. The other night I was surfing around and found an article from Fast Company, “Gratitude As a...
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