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The old HR saying goes, "Hire for attitude, train for skills." But how do you create an organization that lives on trust? How do you create a trustworthy people-creating organization? How do you lead and manage a business that runs itself on trust principles? By hiring for trustingness, and training for trustworthiness. Read More

As Labor Day draws to a close, here's one of my favorite meditations for entrepreneurs who are even thinking about leaving their existing venture and going back to the kind of regular job that this national holiday was created for. It comes, of course, from Steve Pavlina, a truly dangerous mind...but in a good way...and a guy who is certainly on Read More

Columnist Jim Blasingame writes these thoughts about small business at CommercialAppeal.com as another Labor Day comes and goes here in the U.S. Why no celebration for entrepreneurs who have done so much for the economy, especially those who operate the nation's small business. Some numbers here from Jim. Small businesses, as it happens, represen Read More

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As Simon mentioned in welcoming me aboard, I have been writing an employment law blog for nearly 7 years now, which is hard for me to believe. At that time, there were only a few active legal blogs in Canada and over these past 7 years I have watched this space develop into a vibrant hub of information sharing, discussion and debate. So for my firs Read More

When was the last time you stepped outside your working comfort zone? Amber's recent post about business success mentioned having to “do things we're uncomfortable doing, like — 'putting ourselves out there.'” Her post reminded us how often we deny ourselves certain possibilities simply because we're uncomfortable with giving something new a try. Read More

At one time I considered going back to University to get my MBA, however at this time I was also flying around the country and overseas for business. I enjoyed the buzz you get when an aircraft takes off and thought it would be even better flying a light plane. As I couldn't afford to do both I had to make a choice. Read More

Giving compliments using correct business etiquette in the workplace is a way of bringing someone up to your level. Especially if you are in senior management and you give someone a compliment, it encourages them because it makes them feel like they're worthy. We give more to people we like, we prefer to do more business with people we like, and Read More

In another video from David Skul of Relativity Business Technology Solutions, David discusses how to use Squidoo for marketing, including marketing for your small business. Squidoo is a growing automated blogging platform that allows you to target a specific niche in individual Websites called lenses. The benefit, David says, is that Squidoo allow Read More