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An entrepreneur has two factors to face when running a business: Internal and external. The external factor involves the environment, the market, and other components outside the entrepreneur and the business. The external factors are parts of a business that you have virtually no control over. These factors present the greatest risk to a business [...]

Some people were born organized and then there are those of us who struggle with organizing every year at this time.  It seems that it’s always at the end of the year when that little annoying bug begins nudging you to clear things up and start the new year organized. Well, I’ve read just about [...]

Before a doctor diagnoses a specific disease, his patient must undergo a series of laboratory exams and assessments. He has to know the history of his patient and how lifestyle affected his present health problem. As results come in, that would be an indication of the time when a physician gives specific drugs and therapies [...]

Diversity, diversity, diversity! Some people, political types in particular, are trying to make “diversity” our defining characteristic.  Has anyone thought of approaching the topic from the point of “commonality”, a bonding point of view, rather than “diversity”, a dividing point of view?  Using the term “diversity” appears to me to mask a hidden and potentially [...]

Ask yourself are you paddling or floating your canoe down the river of your business life? If you’re floating then you’re on the defense, if you’re paddling then you’re on the offense – where do you want to be? In today’s business climate if you’re not on the offensive then you’re being whipped and buffeted [...]