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		<title>Information Technology Issues Related to Firing Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an era of high-employment, this is a sensitive subject &#8211; but must me addressed none the less. Terminating an employee is never fun. As a business owner, you have to worry about the human resources ramifications of what you are about to do (making it a clean fire with progressive discipline policies, etc.).  However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Business &amp; Life Getting in the Way of Your Company&#8217;s Goals? Shut Up &amp; Adapt!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we started this year, I wrote two blogs surrounding leadership and goal setting:
Leadership &#38; Goal Setting in 2010
Accountability – From Resolution to Reality – How Will You “Get It  Done” This Year?
Now that we are 1/2 way through the year, how much have you gotten done? Are you on track to complete all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Possible to Achieve Zero Time in Business? What About Negative Time? How much control of time do we really have?</title>
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The concept of Time Compression was recently introduced to me by a client at the conclusion of a recent meeting. I was so enthralled by what he taught me that I did some more research that night and found several articles that further elaborated on the concept and what it means for business.
The first article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Small Business Person of the Year Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The experience of being a Metro Atlanta Small Business Person of the Year Finalist was an interesting one for me. While I have no illusions that I am one of the 5 best small business people in all of Metro-Atlanta, a feeling that I am sure is shared by the other finalists, we were the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Dell, Starbucks &amp; Others &#8211; Should I Stay or Should I Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While at the Corporate Connections conference in Toronto, one of the facilitators brought up how certain companies had started to fail when their founding CEOs had stepped down or taken a less active role in the company.  Some recent examples include Dell and Starbucks. And who isn&#8217;t watching Microsoft more closely now given the departure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlook Inbox Management: Tips &amp; Tricks For Business Owners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outlook is a very powerful time and communication management tool if you decide to take advantage of some of it&#8217;s less often used features.
While these tips and tricks can be used by anyone, for almost any reason. I am going to explain how I use them from the perspective of a business owner. Why the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Office Part III &#8211; Reestablish Base Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So moving day is upon you.
First and foremost, you will need to get your communications up and running. This means moving the telephone and computer systems and having them hooked backed up by professionals. In the Atlanta market, for telephone systems, I recommend Robert Brock&#8217;s company, Square 1 Technology. For computers and the network, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Office Part II &#8211; Planning Death &amp; Rebirth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that you have a signed lease, you have a lot of planning to do. We did all of our planning through our company goal tracking service that we use called Lifetick. We divided out the work this way:

Change of Address:

Utilities like phone and power
E-Commerce Sites
Vendors
All online directories (Chamber of Commerce, Google Local Search, Trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Office Part I &#8211; Timing &amp; the Tenant Rep</title>
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Moving an office is a process accompanied by so many possible emotions: joy, dread, relief, stress, and more &#8211; that it can seem like you need a therapist just to deal with the move&#8230; for everyone in your company. After all, you still have a business to run, and if you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What has the recession taught you about your yourself? your business? the world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Did you learn anything from the recent recession? Or did it simply confirm what you already suspected? A combination? Tell me your thoughts.
What it taught me about myself: 
It confirmed in me that I have the ability to lead my company through a crisis. Having started Carceron during the 2001 recession and surviving a [...]]]></description>
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