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Revealing Secrets

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Revealing Secrets

Revealing Secrets

We’re ready to begin revealing secrets.  Perhaps you have been following along in this article series.

  1. We started with My Quest.  When I started this series, I shared about my decades-long journey to find the secret to business success.
  2. As you know, I was looking for a simple formula for Business Alchemy.  I was hoping to find a one-step, sure-fire way of turning any business into gold.
  3. Then, I revealed to you The Big Secret.  That, alas, there was ...
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DEC
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Process Consulting, Innovate, Leadership, Management, Problem solving

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The Big Secret

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The Big Secret

The Big Secret

In this article, I’m going to tell you the big secret.

I’ve been telling you about My Quest.  Like looking for Sasquatch or Big Foot, I have spent decades looking for the secret to business success.  And, the big question was and is: Is there such a thing as Business Alchemy?

Is there a simple way to turn an ordinary business into gold?

Business Alchemy – Debunked?

You might recall a cable show called “MythBusters.”  In this show, two pseudoscientists ...

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NOV
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Business Growth, Business Startups, Innovate, Leadership, Management

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Preferred Provider Network

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Preferred Provider Network

The Blue Elevator™ Group – Preferred Provider Network

We’d like to consider promoting you!

Do you consider yourself one the best professionals in your field?

If so, we invite you to consider pursuing a Membership in the Blue Elevator™ Preferred Provider Network. 

Background

Since 2012, Blue Elevator™ has been providing our clients the very best in custom, collaborative, and actionable business advisory.

And, in order to meet the needs of our clients, we need to identify only the very best business providers.

Here’s why:

  • In ...
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13
NOV
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Leadership

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Working Twice As Hard

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Working Twice As Hard

Working Twice As Hard

As a business owner or executive, do you ever feel like you are working twice as hard to grow your business?

And, despite working twice as hard, do you ever feel like you’re making half as much? 

You Are Not Alone

As the Founder of Blue Elevator™, I have observed countless entrepreneurs over the years.  And, my observations pretty much follow the human experience.

Some entrepreneurs start out and become an overnight success.  Then, there are others who start out like ...

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OCT
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Business Growth, Management

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A House Divided

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A House Divided

A House Divided

“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” – Mark 3:25

Back Story – A House Divided

Many years ago, I was managing a relatively large company.  We had a lot of departments.  We had a lot of managers.

In my immediate case, we were coming out of a turnaround situation and forging ahead, but we were experiencing some turbulence.  We had seemingly committed and focused managers.  The trouble was, for various reasons, sometimes they seemed to be ...

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Categories: Blog, Business Growth, Business Startups, Leadership, Management, Management Action Items

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Completeness

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Completeness

Completeness

It is an audit objective.

As a former auditor for what’s now PricewaterhouseCoopers, we dealt with audit objectives.  These audit objectives were also learned in my Accounting/Auditing classes in business college at California State University, Fullerton.

The audit objectives were also reinforced in the CPA review course.  That is, a CPA examination test preparation course I took from Newt Becker my senior year.

Let’s see if I remember … ECVARP was the acronym Newt used.  Existence, Completeness, Valuation, Accuracy/Validity, Rights/Obligations, Presentation/Disclosure.  But this ...

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MAR
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Categories: Blog, Business Development, Business Growth, Business Process, Innovate, Leadership, Management, Management Action Items

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Write It Down

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Write It Down

Write It Down

If you have landed on this article, welcome!  The introductory article is titled WDF – A Three Part Series.

In this article, we discuss W.  W helps us remember to Write It Down.

Setting The Stage

I remember my first day of real professional work at the Big 8 accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand – now PricewaterhouseCoopers (The Big 8 was a term used in the 1980s to reference the world’s 8 largest accounting ...

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FEB
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Categories: Blog, Business Growth, Business Process, Leadership, Management, Management Action Items

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Change Is Multi-Dimensional

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Change Is Multi-Dimensional

Change is Multi-Dimensional

When it comes to making decisions, it’s important to realize that change is multi-dimensional.

In life and in business, we often come to a crossroad or a decision point.  We try to weigh the pros and cons – and then, make the best decision possible.  And it is here where we pause for caution, as not every decision has its desired consequence or outcome.  Or, rather, the decision itself introduces some other unintended consequences.  Change is multi-dimensional.

The ability to ...

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17
JAN
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Business Process Consulting, Innovate, Leadership, Management

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Sweet Tea and Economics

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Sweet Tea and Economics

Sweet Tea and Economics

This article could have also been titled A False Sense of Security.  But hopefully you’ll understand the title selection in a bit.

Sweet Tea

When I was a kid, I would enjoy an annual pilgrimage to my parent’s home state – Arkansas.  I would enjoy my grandmother’s freshly-boiled sweet corn, french fries, fried okra, and all other types of Southern comfort food.  But what I didn’t enjoy so much were grandpa’s fresh shot, squirrel and dumplings.  I didn’t like ...

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JAN
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Categories: Blog, Business Consulting, Business Development, Business Startups, Innovate, Leadership, Management, Management Action Items

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Simple And Easy

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Simple And Easy

Simple And Easy

I am constantly entertaining the tension between two words: simple and easy.  At face value, the two words would appear similar.  Synonyms.

But they are not.

As we grow in business and life, these words begin to carry more impact.  Easy could mean simple.  But simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy.

In actuality, these words couldn’t be more different.  In fact, they could be antonyms.

A True Story

Once upon a time, there was a valiant soldier named Naaman.  He was the commander of ...

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DEC
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Categories: Blog, Leadership, Management, Management Action Items

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