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Owner-itis

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Owner-itis

Owner-itis

Owner-itis has afflicted many entrepreneurs in their time.  It strikes young and old alike and can occur at anytime.  It can also affect both rookies and business veterans.  The malady is rarely solved without the help of a skilled and trusted business advisor.  The reason?  Whereas its symptoms are easy to diagnose, it is rarely associated with the systemic problem that causes it.

It is true that many who have the disease don’t really know that they have it.  However, once ...

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18
OCT
2

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process Consulting, Marketing, Pricing

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A Primer on Hiring

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A Primer on Hiring

A primer on hiring

When I was little boy, the neighborhood kids would play cowboys and Indians.  The Old West wasn’t too far a distant memory back then.  And, if you are in the politically correct crowd, don’t get too excited.  This article isn’t really about cowboys and Indians.

It’s about an idiom: “Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.”  This translates to “Too many managers and not enough workers.”  And, let’s address this right away.  This article doesn’t insinuate that mangers ...

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15
SEP
1

Categories: Business Consulting, Business Process, Management, Replicate

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator™

At Blue Elevator™, we maintain the bias that no one can truly see themselves.

Here are the three reasons you should consider engaging Blue Elevator™:

  1. Left unattended, your business could be headed towards a plateau and then, an eventual decline.  This is the essence of life.
  2. To help avoid this plateau, it is imperative that you affect innovative change.
  3. To help create innovative change, and because it’s hard to see ourselves, it is important that you obtain skilled ...
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11
DEC
5

Categories: Accelerate, Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Innovate, Replicate

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Ready to Engage

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Ready to Engage

Ready to Engage?

In a preceding article, Business Consulting – Then and Now, we made the case for cutting-edge business advisory.  We finished with the question: Are you ready to engage?  Generally speaking, the answer is usually “Yes!”

  1. “Yes, let’s go!”
  2. “Yes, I would like to, but … things are slow right now and I need to close a few more deals so I can build some cash to start work.”
  3. “Yes, I would like to, but ...
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31
OCT
1

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Business Startups, Leadership, Management

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Business Consulting – Then and Now

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Business Consulting – Then and Now

Business Consulting: A Recent History

For the past four decades business consulting has been associated with three phenomena:

  1. A business owner comes to realize his business is broken.  He can’t fix things and he is finally ready to ask for help.
  2. A C-level executive (or Board of Directors) decides to hire an outside business consulting firm to validate his opinion.  Or, he needs to hire a scapegoat for some difficult decision the organization needs to make.
  3. A business needs to implement a new process ...
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29
OCT
1

Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Process, Business Process Consulting, Management

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