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An Exercise in Creating Your Future
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There are two kinds of people: Those who wait for events to carry them along, and those who take what comes and with it design their own futures.
One of the most powerful success factors in life is envisioning a future. You cannot reach what you cannot imagine. Envisioning a state of affairs of your own desire is the first step in making the future happen.
A Simple Exercise
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Author: Michael Knowles
Category: Business & Finance
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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A Model for Sustainable Business
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Use the word "sustainable" in a business environment and don't be surprised to see some eyeball rolling. The concept of business sustainability for some conjures up images of "tree-hugging dirt lovers," as one bumper sticker proclaims. Yet in the end, sustainability -- not growth for growth's sake -- is the optimal model for long-term business and stakeholder success.
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Author: Michael Knowles
Category: Business & Finance
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Is Competition Really the Problem?
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The undercurrent in U.S. business today may well be one of fear and even desperation. It would be easy to make such an assessment based on the number of words that have been written on the subject of competition. Businesses in the United States have lost their edge, if the flood of articles and reports on the subject are to be believed.
But is the problem really competition fo .....
Author: Michael Knowles
Category: Business & Finance
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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The Business and Life You Want to Build
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In the early days of my first consulting business, I knew I needed some sort of plan to give me the greatest chance at success. I took many a wrong step, yet in the end I managed to put a solid business together.
I had learned through bitter experience that forming a successful business is to be conscious about the kind of business, and the sort of life, I wanted to have. I sp .....
Author: Michael Knowles
Category: Business & Finance
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Your Unique Advantage
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You have a unique advantage, an edge no one else has. When you put that unique advantage to work for you -- when you take the time to develop it as you would strengthen a muscle -- you get something that reduces perceived risk and triples your chances for success.
That something is called Informed Confidence.
In fact, research in progress by the SBA Office of Advocacy (http:/ .....
Author: Michael Knowles
Category: Business & Finance
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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