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WD-40: Failure Breeds Success
What would you give to develop a product like WD-40? Is it easy to find a niche that can be captured and sustain a brand for years? How many failures led to that success? Let’s fast forward to our...
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Innovators Come in All Forms
All too often, we think of innovation as just the creation of a new idea – but, what matters most is bringing that idea to life to accomplish great things within an organization or society as a whole....
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Success Requires Dynamic Thinking
If you’re like most business owners, by the time February rolls around you’re deeply immersed in day-to-day “firefighting”, pressing sales issues, contingency planning and other activities associated...
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Are You Aligned for Success?
In his book entitled True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results (see http://amzn.to/1ehBwws), Edgar Papke professes that “the key strategic imperative of any...
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How Capable are Your Sales People?
I have a client – let’s call him Jack. Jack’s company barely made it through the economic crisis and lost about 35% of their revenue. In recent years they regained almost 20% of what was lost, but now...
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The Art of Dialogue and Its Role in Business Success
Paradoxically, the art of dialogue has dissipated with the proliferation of communication vehicles and mobile technology. Now, if my sons heard me say this, they would exclaim: “you sound so old!”...
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“Raising the Bar – Success Strategies for Thriving at Work and in Life”–...
Olsen Thielen CPAs and EBITDA Partners invite you to attend the next session of their educational seminar series that will be held on Wednesday, December 17 at Olsen Thielen’s Roseville office, 2675...
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Employee Learnings from March Madness
What would happen if you lost your best employee? Coach Calipari at Kentucky and Coach K at Duke lose 25-50% of their best players every year and 100% of their best players every four years, yet have...
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Success Factors in Life, Business & Transitions
I have personally journeyed through several transitions over the past 62 years, and am currently thinking about the next one. I wonder: what will the next 15 years look like? Similar to most aging...
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April 19, 2017 – Shifting the Odds of Your Venture’s Success
Olsen Thielen CPAs and EBITDA Partners invite you to attend the next session of their educational seminar series that will be held on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at Olsen Thielen’s Roseville office, 2675...
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