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Oct

Strategy—Do you have one? {Part 1}

October 20, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Growing Small Business, Leadership, Measurement, Sales Tools

Is it Strategy or Is it Illusion? Do you have a strategy to grow your business? Be honest? If yes, are you using it? Is there a Sales Plan in it? Are you executing your sales plan? Are you on track to meet your goals? Are you measuring your results? Are you accountable to your results? Where can you improve?...

Sep

Take me to your Leader? Oh, wait, I got this!

September 3, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Leadership, Sales Tools

Are you waiting for someone else to take the reins of Leadership? If you need a helluva compelling reason to take charge here and today, here’s to inspiring you: There’s a reason the former proper noun, “Google” is now listed as a “transitive verb”, according to Webster’s Dictionary. Customers are not just vetting the specs...

Jul

Fanatical and Radical Culture—The Zappos Way

July 25, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Leadership

Many many many stories have been written on the phenomenal, if not fanatical corporate culture CEO Tony Hsieh has created at Zappos, but here’s a new one on me: They offer a 4 week immersion to new hires but after a week or so, they give newbies “The Offer”—which is a bribe of $1,000 TO...

Jul

Business Doesn’t Occur in a Vacuum

July 22, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Growing Small Business, Leadership, Sales Tools, Uncategorized

Outside elements, personalities, bias, preferences, mistakes—these forces that impact business decisions cannot be compartmentalized and made without experiencing the application of external forces. So why do corporations still operate in departmental silos that stifle creativity, efficiency, productivity and profitability? As it turns out, no, no one ever asked me. However, I’ve turned every organization I’ve...

Jun

What Kind of Culture/Company do you Keep?

June 18, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Growing Small Business, Leadership

The foundation of everything you build. EVERYTHING . . . rests on the kind of company you decide to keep. No, not who do you hang out with, but what vision, aesthetics, energy, influence, encouragement, relationships, structure—you keep in your business. Cactus grow in dry, sandy soil. Mushrooms grow in manure. Bromeliads grow on trees. Lotus...

May

Mompreneur – Battle Cry? Or Disclaimer?

May 18, 2013Shawn Karol SandyBe Better in Business, Communication, Culture, Growing Small Business, Leadership

I know this title might put some peoples’ undies in a bunch, but hear me out. I think we need to dump the collective term, “Mompreneur,” as it’s getting used, abused, and sliding down into the depths of what I think is now an “excuse” used by some women starting, building or engaging in a business....