Profitability

Private-company Sales, Margin Growth Continue

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Small Business, Starting a Business, Professional-Services, Manufacturing, Private Companies, Sageworks, Profitability, Small Business America, Small Business News
Mary Ellen Biery

Privately held U.S. companies -- the millions of businesses that drive job creation and GDP -- are growing sales so far this year at about the same ra...

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Buddha CEO: Five Mantras for Your Workday

BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Business, Buddha, Dalai Lama, Money, Mindfulness, Tibet, Bad Bosses, Karma, Bosses, Profitability, Compassion, Productivity, Happiness, Difficult People, Business News
BJ Gallagher

If you really want to be a good student of the Buddha and you're willing to take on a difficult learning assignment, here's a radical suggestion: love your problem people. They can teach you lessons that wonderful people never can.

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Why Facebook Needs Female Board Members

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Risk Reduction, Bahar Gidwanit, Csrhub, Female Board Members, Gmi, Viviane Reding, Fortune 500 Companies, Profitability, Facebook, Cynthia Figge, Facebook Board, Business News
Carol Pierson Holding

Wouldn't a female board member be first to recognize ideas that appeal to the company's largest group of users? To avoid behaviors that might alienate women?

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The Three R's of Boosting Profitability

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Small Business, Business, Profitability, Corporate Profits, Generating Profits, Gross Profit Margin, Sageworks, Driving Profits, Business Profitablity, Cutting Costs, Cost-Cutting, Small Business News
Mary Ellen Biery

If sales volumes aren't improving or are volatile, business owners can still grow profits. Here are three ways to generate more bang for the bucks your business brings in.

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Why Go Green? Ask Wal-Mart

Ed Lawler | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Environmental Responsibility, Patagonia, Sustainability, Green Business, Ups, Profitability, Wal-Mart, Management, Business News
Ed Lawler

Some leaders are questioning the investment value of environmental responsibility, or "being green," but consider this: green can be profitable.

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SEO: An Open Letter to CEOs and Boards of Directors

Larry MacDonald | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Business Development, Increasing-Revenue, New-Business, Sales, Board of Directors, Ceos, Online Marketing, Websites, Web Design, Seo, Search Engine Optimization, Profitability, Technology News
Larry MacDonald

Search engine optimization? CEOs and board members, as well as managers of international companies wrote me asking why they should be concerned about ...

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26 Smart Business Resolutions for the New Year

BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Business, Small Business, New Year's Resolutions, Business, Opportunity, Profitability, Business Plans, Goals, Goal Setting, Business News
BJ Gallagher

Let's change the conversation from "Where are the jobs?" to "How can I reinvent myself?"

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Why Letterman and Leno might want to be BFFs

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, BI Norwegian School of Management, Friends in the Workplace, Friend, Competition, Relationships, Research, Workplace, Living Neews, Norway, Acquaintance, Business, Profitability, Workplace Friendship, Breaking Living News, Letterman, Leno, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Close friendships among business competitors can actually result in enhanced profitability, according to a new report from researchers at the BI Norwe...

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CEOs: Here's One 4-Letter Word You Need To Start Using

Debbie Robins | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Return-on-Investment, Leadership, Human-Capital, Basic-Human-Needs, Profitability, Corporations, Love, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Debbie Robins

The modern day plague that impacts every one of us isn't a physical illness like typhoid or polio. It's an emotional disease -- unhappiness -- being fueled by our mismanaged work environments.

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The Biochemistry of Sales

Rick Foster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emotions, Relationships, Sales, Profitability, Biochemistry, Sales Relationships, Sales Customers, Selling, Happy Customers, Business, Happy, Happiness, Business News
Rick Foster

Any seasoned salesperson will describe a sales-positive customer in the following terms: relaxed, focused, high-trust, happy. The question is, can salespeople consciously create these biochemically-induced states?

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Sustainability and Profitability

Jan Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolutiuonary Business, Sustainability, Visionary Capitalism, Profitability, Business News
Jan Phillips

The Subject is Sustainability...visionary thinking...new ways of doing business I'll be interviewed tonight at 6 pm Pacific time; http://www.universa...

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Nestle Gets It Right

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Give Something Back, Sharon Stone, Peter Brabeck, Crops, Office for Partnerships, Creating Shared Value, Profitability, Harvard, Davos, Capitalist, Water, Farmers, Sustainability, Un, Nestle, UN Global Compact Principals, World Economic Forum, Business News
Dan Silverstein

Nestle has taken specific and measurable steps to achieve sustainable, shared value.

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