Quote of the month – September 2010

September 17, 2010

“All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders” Should have posted this two weeks ago, but I have been crazy busy with upcoming wedding 10.10.10 and potentially, closing on a house at the end of the month. I will have lots to blog about both wedding and first time home buyers.

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Quote of the month – August 2010

August 2, 2010

“Managers do things right, leaders do the right thing.” ~Bennis

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Quote of the month – July 2010

July 5, 2010

If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax. ~Abraham Lincoln

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Your People

June 15, 2010

I wanted to share a presentation called Your People that Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation, put together for a conference she went to. After watching it, I heard several bits of advice that reminded me of Part 1 and Part 2 of the posts I just wrote about how to build your [...]

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How To Build Your Network – Part 2 Of 2

June 14, 2010

How do I diagnose my own personal/professional network? Take a sheet of paper and make three columns. The columns are titled name of contact, who introduced you to the contact, and to whom did you introduce the contact. Write all of the names of the most important people in your network. These people should be [...]

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How to Build Your Network – Part 1 of 2

June 13, 2010

“Strong personal networks don’t just happen at the watercooler. They have to be carefully constructed.” I read a GREAT article thanks to a friend sharing the link. The article was published in the Harvard Business Review in December 2005, and I think it is an excellent short read. My review and notes are as follows: [...]

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Entrepreneur – Sid Mashburn

June 9, 2010

I wanted  to share about a entrepreneurship presentation I attended that was sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Society for Professionals in the Georgia Tech MBA Program. Sid’s Background Sid Mashburn is an entrepreneur who opened Sid Mashburn Men’s Clothing in 2009 located on the west-end of downtown Atlanta.  Sid’s background includes working for Tommy Hilfiger Land’s [...]

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Quote of month – June 2010

June 4, 2010

“If we want to know what a business is, we must start only with its purpose…There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. What the customer thinks he is buying, what he considers ‘value’ is decisive – it determines what a business is, what it produces, and whether it will [...]

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Steps to getting your CPA

May 31, 2010

As it stands now, I have finished my CPA exams.  Recently, I sent my education evaluation to NASBA to make a decision on whether I meet the education criteria for the state of Georgia to get my license.  Whenever they decide to mail me the OK I can get around to sending in the application [...]

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Falling Short of Retirement Income Needs

May 6, 2010

A new study by Hewitt Associates found that four out of five Americans need to step up their retirement savings habits or plan to retire at a later age. Before I go into detail about this study, I have to say that this is alarming and unacceptable. There is no excuse to not be informed [...]

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