There are a lot of ways to define business success – ultimately it comes down to the business owner’s definition. However by anyone’s definition, what Belinda Waggoner has done with her business, HR-Haven, is an outstanding success. She’s been nominated and

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Though they never coined the phrase, almost a century before the Midwest started promoting itself as the “Silicon Prairie”, Russell and Clara Stover may have viewed this region more appropriately as the “Chocolate Prairie”.   Their rags to

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I had a great discussion the other day in one of my Peer Group Advisory Boards. The question for the group was – ‘What’s the most important trait for a successful business leader?’.

A great case was

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There was a little secret sauce released in an interview this past week that reaffirmed that any business can be reinvented.   And based on this example, business age and size has little

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A successful sale – for everything but the simplest transactions – is a series of steps…and in order to reach a win-win conclusion you have to make it through all of the

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