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FOLLOWING A POOR PLAN IS EVEN WORSE THAN HAVING NO PLAN Have you heard of the Biosphere 2 Experiment? As business owners and entrepreneurs there are a lot of lessons to be learned from it. First let me give you some history on the Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 is a sealed glasshouse complex near the small town of Oracle, north of Tucson, Arizona. It was completed in 1991, funded by a Texan oil billionaire, Edward P. Bass, whose vision was that it could be a step towards the colonization of Mars by humans. With this in mind, the complex was designed [...]

Happy New Year! Whew. It's a busy time of year. With all the busyness that comes with owning a business it's important to take the time to plan for 2019. I get all of the time consuming activities you are plagued with. As a business owner myself these last few months of the year including January is the most hectic time. There are many loose ends to be tied into a pretty bow before heading into the new year and starting fresh. For instance, you have health insurance renewals. Nailing down a health plan that will meet your employees and employers’ [...]

  DISCOVER YOUR BUSINESS CORE VALUES Your core values are preferences, activities or behaviors that you are naturally drawn to. They represent who you are at the core. As a business owner, your personal core values will parallel your business values. An important key to your business success is utilizing all of your core values in your business. If a core value is missing in your business, you will feel as if a key component is missing; your business will not operate at full capacity – and neither will you. From the dictionary, value means “to consider with respect to worth, [...]