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People in leadership overuse sports vernacular when dealing with business questions. Things like "no pain no gain", "step up your game", "hit a home run", and the rest you have heard. What is interesting to me is when sports people use sound business

How to be a room shifter.

I knew exactly what I was going to write about until I opened the Wall Street Journal one morning and saw the following headline: Cain Never Prepared for the Storm. Herman Cain. Remember him?

Budget to increase profit.

You can scurry from task to task - even cross off the plentiful items on your "To Do" list - but that doesn't mean you are successfully navigating your day or the priorities that come with genuine business.

There are patterns in every part of commerce. It's easier to be robotically repetitive and as businesspeople, shoppers, or office workers, we tend to continue doing what we're most comfortable with.