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A Simple Recipe For Success In Business, Career and Life

(Originally posted June 30, 2009) 1. What is your ambition for your business, career and life? Where do you want to be 5, 10, 20 years from now? Dare to dream big. Develop a clear vision of what success looks like for you. 2. How are you going ...

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Customer Service: Don't Do This!

(Originally posted June 24, 2009) This is a story that offers an example of a poor tactic for soliciting new business. As a business manager I would frequently receive appointment requests from potential new vendors. A sales person for a potential vendor ...

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Preparing for Turbulance Ahead

(Originally posted September 28, 2008) The stock markets crashed and recovered last week.  Governments around the world responded with unprecedented interventions and experts warned that we have not seen things so bad since the infamous crash of 1929. It’s clear that there are turbulent times ahead but ...

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Business Fraser Valley Articles

The articles below were previously published in Business Fraser Valley, a monthly publication covering business in British Columbia and particularly in the Fraser Valley region just east of Greater Vancouver. x

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