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Please, Don' t Lie

I understand the temptation to lie. If you're a small company, you want people to think your big. If you don't have experience, you want people to thing you do. If your big and bureaucratic you want people to think you're quick and responsive. Okay, let's not call it lying. Let's call it stretching the truth when positioning our company or selling proposition. Whatever you call it, I encourage you not to do it. You create three critical problems when you do this:

The Most Important Thing To Remember When Hiring Salespeople

If your sales plans call on you to get a quality salesperson it is critical that you remember: When...

Mediocrity Sucks

For the first time in, umm, well, since I can remember, I completely unplugged for more than one...

Ignore The News

The best advice I ever got as a financial advisor was that there is an important distinction for...

What We Need Is Confidence

I'm not going to lie to you. The last 10 days have been bad. Whether the S&P's downgrade of the US...

Walk, Don't Run

A good friend of mine is a cardiologist. One of my favorites stories that he shares with me is how...

There Is No Quick Fix

I remember years ago a friend of mine was having money trouble. He was talking to a financial...

Making August Productive

It feels like yesterday when I was saying goodbye to 2010 and hello 2011. In the blink of an eye,...

Why Marketing Doesn't Work

John Wanamaker famously said, "I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can...

Simplicity Leads to Amazing Results

This book review originally appeared in Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia SmartCEO Magazine...