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Many people equate business ownership with POWER. And, depending upon your defintion- I would have to agree. Small business owners have an opportunity to have an amazing amount of positive influence by leveraging the REAL POWER generated by their businesses and not the abuses we hear so much about on the news. Here are some examples of the kinds of POWER your team can generate when you are committed to making a powerful & positive difference! The POWER of Integrity Based Business Dealings When one company sets the standard, many businesses take notice and choose to follow in your path! Be the company setting the standard and the example of true power by operating an intergrity based company. The POWER of Building People It is an awesome honor

Little Orphan Annie sang, “The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow- there’ll be sun”. Oh what a glorious thought that our tomorrow will be better and if we are lucky, that wonderful song may turn out to be true. The reality is that TOMORROW is never promised and if we are not careful, tomorrow can steal our today and our future! Many business owners, including myself, fall into the trap of putting things off until tomorrow. Our plates are so full that we often borrow tomorrow with our long ‘to-do’ lists of today. Here are a few ways that can help us avoid the tragedy of time mismanagement and counting on a day that may never come…tomorrow. Know Your Purpose:If there is a

Do you remember when you first started your business? I sure do – I had visions of grandeur! ALL businesses would want to use our company, EVERY business owner would feel the passion we had for the business, we would have the PERFECT solution for EACH business that came our way and there was just one more thing- we all lived happily ever after. (just like a Fairy Tale!) Does that sound familiar to you? Business ownership is certainly not for the faint of heart and it turns out it is no fairy tale either. Somewhere along the way, along with many other life lessons, business owners realize that we cannot be everything to everyone and we need to seek out and find our Niche’; our Sweet Spot.

Understanding the strengths your team possesses is critical to the success of any company. In other words, having the right people in the right seats can make all the difference Each of us is wired to do a few things very well. If our daily tasks revolve around those few things, life is good! If, on the other hand, our daily tasks revolve around areas outside of our strengths, life can be tough. As business owners or managers, we simply must take the time to determine if the members of our team are ‘wired’ for their positions. Right Position + Wrong Person = LOST $$ & Talents (replace or remove staff member) Right Person + Wrong Position = LOST $$ & Talents (relocate the staff member) Right Position

An executive is busy working in his home office when his 6-year-old son comes in and starts asking him to play. After much persistence followed by much frustration, the exec pulls out a magazine and opens it to a large fold-out map of the world. Pulling out the map, he cuts it into hundreds of tiny pieces and gives them to his son. “here, son, after you put together this map of the world, then I’ll play with you.” Knowing that a 6-year-old has no idea what a map of the world looks like, he assumed that this task should keep his son busy for at least a couple hours. But ten minutes later his son came back into the office and said “All done, daddy.” The executive