Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
Strategy is often talked about in business schools, in fact it’s a primary focus. Culture however, is less understood. Culture involves a variety of contributing factors including a blend of...
View ArticlePromote from Within
In this video, I explain how it can benefit both business owners and employees when business owners promote existing employees from within the company whenever possible as opposed to hiring outside...
View ArticleMake a Good Living While Serving a Greater Good
All of us are in business to make a profit. But if that’s the primary driving force in business, we become mercenaries to that process. I believe that I should serve a greater need than simply to make...
View ArticleTop Etiquette Tips on Doing Business & Networking Globally
We’re constantly becoming more of a global community and we’re receiving more and more opportunities to network worldwide right alongside cultures which are very different from our own. This makes it...
View ArticleNetworking Amidst Cultural Differences
Understanding cultural differences when doing business around the world is becoming more important in a global society. Even within large countries like the United States, there are definitely...
View ArticleFive Tips for Traveling Abroad on Business
I’m extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel extensively for both business and pleasure. Over the years, I’ve accumulated numerous tips to help aid overseas business travel. What many...
View ArticleFour Keys to Becoming a Networking Catalyst
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no mechanic. In fact, when I was a kid, my father (who could fix just about anything) took me out to the garage one day and said, “Son, you’d better go to college...
View ArticleIntroducing Garage to Global
What does it take to start a home-based business and turn it into a global organization? I am sharing the many lessons I’ve learned to do just that. In 1985, I started a small business from my home in...
View ArticleCulture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
VIDEO BLOG: Culture is a blend of attitude, beliefs, mission, philosophy and momentum. As a result, culture helps to create and sustain a successful brand. The way people interact with one another and...
View ArticleCompassionate Capitalism
Blaine Bartlett joins Ivan Misner to discuss his International Best Selling book, “Compassionate Capitalism: Journey to the Soul of Business”. Pay attention to the soul of your business or you might...
View ArticleCompassionate Capitalism
Blaine Bartlett joins Ivan Misner to discuss his International Best Selling book, “Compassionate Capitalism: Journey to the Soul of Business”. Pay attention to the soul of your business or you might...
View ArticleHow Do You Create Organizational Culture
How do you create an organizational culture in a company? I’ve been asked this question a lot over the years. I’ve written about organizational culture but I’ve never written about how you “create”...
View ArticleWelcome to Thailand
This week most of our BNI directors from around the world are traveling to Bangkok to attend the BNI Global Convention. Welcome to Thailand. To those BNI directors and members attending, I am looking...
View ArticleWitajcie w Warszawie!
This week most of our BNI directors from around the world are traveling to Warsaw to attend the 2019 BNI Global Convention. Welcome to Poland! To those BNI directors and members attending, I am looking...
View ArticleGarage to Global ® – Another Four Lessons
I literally built my business from operating out of my garage to a global enterprise with over 9400 BNI chapters in more than 70 countries all around the world. Overall, I have twelve lessons for you...
View ArticleHow Do You Create Organizational Culture
How do you create an organizational culture in a company? I’ve been asked this question a lot over the years. I’ve written about organizational culture but I’ve never written about how you “create”...
View ArticleWelcome to Thailand
This week most of our BNI directors from around the world are traveling to Bangkok to attend the BNI Global Convention. Welcome to Thailand. To those BNI directors and members attending, I am looking...
View ArticleThe Three Laws for Entrepreneurial Success
After four decades in the business world, I have found that three laws truly summarize an entrepreneur’s recipe for success: Passion, People, & Process. Passion: The 1st Law for Entrepreneurial...
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