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Silver Tsunami
-Of the USA's 15 million business owners, 9 million were born before 1964 -Baby Boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day -Every 57 seconds a business owner is reaching the age of 65 -Since 2011 (when the first Boomers turned 65) retirement has the single...
Strategy Review
The Importance of a Strategy Review It’s the end of the first quarter. As a football coach, would you skip a huddle with your team? Probably not. So, then why are you skipping a quarter-end huddle with your organizational team? Strategy reviews bring your team...
The Coming College Education Bubble
For years, the cultural rulebook clearly stated that middle-class meant owning your own home and that your children must go to college. Out of that consensus emerged a complex system of tax breaks and special lending deals designed to make sure that the number of...
The 3 Main Obstacles to Your Personal Growth and Development
As humans, our inherent nature is to be positive. We all tend to gravitate towards positivity rather than to negativity, but why do we seem to move to the negative side sometimes? Are negative thoughts really a part of us?? What are the obstacles that keep us from...
Why Teamwork Beats Individual Talent
Michael Jordan said “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Jordan was an extraordinarily talented basketball player, but he recognized that over the long term teamwork trumped individual talent. So what can we learn about business teams...
Why My Wife Left Me Three Times
Start with two people from different cultures and both with strong personalities. Now add some old habits and interesting idiosyncrasies, throw in a bunch of expectations, and then turn up the heat a little with the daily trials of blended-family life. Guess what? You...
