Few skills are more fundamental to success than negotiation. Entrepreneurs, CEOs, business owners, and leaders at all levels encounter situations every day where they are required to negotiate…from closing complex deals to working out delivery terms to fixing customer problems to improving employee performance, negiatation is a very...
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In case you haven’t heard, April 22-28 is National Small Business Week in the US. You can learn more about the various activities going on this week at the US Small Business Administration’s website.

National Small Business Week has been celebrated since 1963 and marks a time when the many...
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Readers of the Daily Big Idea regularly write to me to share their reactions, their ideas, and their questions. One of the more popular questions that comes in is regarding recommended readings on various topics. So beginning today I’m launching a new weekly entry called From the Guru;s Bookshelf. Here’s how it will...
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Many of my recent posts have revealed the challenges of the time period we are in with the growth of Big Idea Guru, LLC. I?ve shared the consternation of being lost amid too many choices, suggested the need to think bigger, and tossed out a lot of advice and suggestions about what to do in such situations. But there has been an important gap...
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One of my promises to the readers of this blog is to share information that you can use.  I came across this great list of applications you can use to grow your business.  I encourage you to take a look at see which ones would work best for you!

Even if you are not yet in a position to utilize some of these tools, the simple exercise of looking them over will be...
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