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Let Gratitude Guide You to Success
If there were an easy way to reduce sick days, boost team morale, make happier customers, and create a more pleasant work environment, you’d probably try it, right? What if it could also make you physically and mentally healthier, and even extend your lifespan? And what if it is free?

Why Businesses Fail—and How to Fix Them
As an entrepreneur, it’s your dream to open your doors, start selling and just keep growing and succeeding. Along the way, however, it’s easy to make a few missteps. At best, these are simply small errors that you correct quickly. At worst, they snowball into financial ruin. From lacking funds to premature scaling, choice of location
How to Make a Selling Proposition Truly Unique
By Ashton Bishop, CEO at Step Change Are you selling a product or a service? If you are, then you know that having a selling proposition will make an impact and ultimately make the sale. However, it is not enough to just have a selling proposition. It needs to be enticing. It needs to be original

3 Questions to Ask Yourself at Your Midyear Review
Written by Ty Kiisel, editor at OnDeck. At the beginning of the year, you set goals for your business. At roughly halfway through the year, it’s a good time to revisit those goals, evaluate how you’re doing and decide whether you’re on track or if you need to revise your plan. Annual goal setting is usually

How Hurricane Irma Defined My Minimum Viable Life
By Davide Frau, an EO South Florida member I recently survived Hurricane Irma as she unleashed all the fury of a Category 5 storm on South Florida. Despite the mandatory evacuation order, I chose to stay through the storm, riding it out on the 9th floor of my Miami condominium building. I made it through better
8 Common Hiring Mistakes
Hiring a new employee comes with risks. The right hire can drive your company forward to greater success. Invest in the wrong person, however, and you can cause real damage to company culture and productivity. Startup CEOs, in particular, should be wary of making common hiring mistakes. 1. Hiring constantly. A common misstep made by