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Selling your business? What tenants need to know about their lease
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailWhether we're speaking at a franchise convention, healthcare workshop or a restaurant expo, we are magnets for tenants' questions. Here are just a few considerations pertaining to commercial lease assignments.
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Is your business prepared for virtual currency?
Jessica Taylor Science & TechnologyWe've seen such innovation and creation from the virtual currency revolution that started back in 2009 with bitcoin, but we didn't think it would actually affect us in today's world. Many consumers thought bitcoin was a scam, just pretend money — until it began to be accepted as actual currency.
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How do executives learn the vocabulary of their business?
Carol Heiberger Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementVocabulary is how we communicate with one another. It's how we recognize competence; it's how we judge credibility. Yet every industry, every company, every project has its own jargon.
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Data breaches on the rise: Are you prepared to stop the leak in 2015?
Paul Starkman Science & TechnologyThroughout 2014, the number of security breaches continued to climb, as did the scope of the data breaches and the costs involved. The current epidemic of security breaches is happening at companies of all sizes and industries. As you turn the calendar to 2015, how can you be ready to stop the leak and mitigate the potential and significant damage that quickly engulfs companies?
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Selling in the new relationship economy
Jared Kligerman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWe often hear that history repeats itself. Some recent examples include: '60s funk rifts in Daft Punk's newest album, '70s fashion of bright, fun patterns, "vintage" filters for photographs, and the return to locally sourced produce. The business world is experiencing this as well.
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The last thing you need is a lawsuit
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementLet's take a quiz. The results may save you from becoming embroiled in a costly lawsuit. Check off the questions you can legally ask job applicants either on your employment application form or in interviews.
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Develop attainable business resolutions to resonate year-round
Ellyn Caruso Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAs the calendar year draws to a close, it's beneficial to establish goals and set in motion a series of attainable business resolutions as we leap into 2015. Resolutions are typically lists loaded with specifics that quickly fall off the radar.
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6 steps to patient leadership
Betty Boyd Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementLeadership is many things to many people, but is patience one of those attributes? How does a leader in an organization show patience to its workforce? Here are six steps toward being a more patient leader.
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Prospecting isn’t an event, it’s a campaign
Marc Wayshak MarketingBill is responsible for sales at his company and considers himself a tenacious worker. Whenever he discovers a new prospect, he enters him or her into the system. From there, he will attempt to contact that person by phone, through email and even via office visit, if possible. However, after a number of failed attempts, Bill is likely to toss the person into the sea of dead prospects. Does this sound familiar at all to you?
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Avoiding joint ownership and its disinheritance risk
David B. Mandell, JD, MBA, and Carole Foos, CPA Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementJoint ownership is the most popular form of ownership for a married couple's real estate and bank accounts. With joint property, when one joint owner dies, property owned in joint ownership automatically passes to the surviving joint owner(s).
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