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Tax Strategies for Business Owners

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Small Business - Entrepreneurship |
Wed, 06/04/2014 - 19:58

Anis Blémur, Owner & Manager, AB Consulting & Accounting Services

Being a business owner you know that traveling comes along with the job. With these tips and tricks it will ensure that every business trip is a tax-deductible vacation. First, make all your business appointments before you leave for your trip. Most people believe that they can go on vacation and simply hand out their business cards in order to make the trip deductible. Wrong. You must have at least one business appointment before you leave in order to establish the "prior set business purpose" required by the IRS.

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Unstoppable

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Self Governance - Leadership |
Wed, 06/04/2014 - 19:24

William G. Cummings, President, Cummings Financial Organization, Inc.

I recently had the distinct pleasure to listen to a great speaker at a conference. I thought it would be the same, blah, blah, economic or business update. Boy, was I surprised. The speaker’s name was Anthony Robles and he was a wrestler at Mesa High School with a 96-0 record, a 2-time Arizona State Champion and a high school National Champion. After high school, he walked onto the Arizona State University wrestling team to prove to them, and to the world, that anything was possible. Through trials and hardships, both on and off the wrestling mat, he finished as a 3-time All-American and the 2011 NCAA National Champion in his weight class. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? What you don’t know was that he was only born with one leg.

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Consciousness Matters! Why Leaders Can’t Afford to Be Without It

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Leadership |
Mon, 06/02/2014 - 19:15

Dr. Shelley Reciniello, Author, The Conscious Leader

Sherlock Holmes is fond of saying, “You see but you do not observe.” Poirot states: “It is the why of human behavior that interests me.”

It pays to do a little sleuthing in the workplace where things are not always as they appear. Let’s look at two different situations:

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Engineering an Aligned Organization

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Leadership - Management |
Fri, 05/30/2014 - 21:53

Joel Trammell, CEO, Khorus

Every organization of significant size struggles with alignment. When I talk with CEOs, alignment is often the number one issue on their plate. Even organizations with as few as 25 employees often struggle with what seems like a simple problem: How do I get everyone on the same page?

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Challenge the Ordinary

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Linda Henman |
Leadership |
Fri, 05/30/2014 - 15:03

Today’s global economy leaves little room for error. It does not allow for mediocrity; the rules and players have changed; and “ordinary” simply won’t work anymore. If you don’t have the best products and services and the top people delivering them, your competitors will, and they will take their excellence all over the world.