Stop Competing on Price

By Howard Shore, Executive and Business Coach

It is not unusual to find companies that have made a lot of changes to the business only to find that those changes had little impact on its ability to increase market share, or worse yet, caused market share to decline.

Business Trends You Must Face to Thrive

By Howard Shore, Founder and Principal of Activate Group

 

In every economy, business leaders need to adjust their strategies to what is going on and will be going on around them. You can usually see these trends and they will be good or bad depending on the industry you are in and how and if you

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The Goal – The right time is now!

Last week I was looking for something to read and I found a dusty book on my book shelf titled “The Goal: A Process on Ongoing Improvement” by Eiyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox. This is one of the most influential books I have read years ago when I was a partner at the audit division with Arthur Andersen in Caracas,

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Are You Sending Mixed Motivational Messages?

It is so easy to send mixed messages to an employee. The best way to discuss this is to share a real live example where a client hired me to coach a partner.

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Your Employee Is Your Most Important Customer

If you considered the people that worked for you as your largest and most important customers, would you behave or see them any differently than you do

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