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Silver Lake push for Workday sends the software stock skyward
Private equity firm Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to acquire enterprise software platform Workday, in a deal that, if it materializes, would be among the largest software buyouts in history. Talks…
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You Are Your Anger: What Managers Get Wrong About Emotional Intelligence
The corporate world has built an entire industry around a single premise: that with the right tools, you can separate yourself from your emotions, observe them from a safe distance, and choose…
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The Hidden Cost of Poor Documentation: Why Accurate Business Records Drive Better Decisions
I was in a client debrief a few months back where three people described the same meeting three different ways. Same room, same hour, same decisions on the table. By the time…
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The Retention Problem Nobody Warns You About When Your Team Spans Three Time Zones
The resignation that made me rebuild how we manage people Two years into running a marketing agency across Morocco, the UAE, and the US, one of our strongest performers, a senior SEO…
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Trump stowed in a catering truck during secret plane swap out of Turkey
In a clandestine move that underscores the real security dangers playing out during the Middle East conflict, reports have surfaced that, at the close of last month’s NATO Summit in Ankara, President…
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The technology decision that costs small businesses the most is the one nobody reviews
Most software decisions in a small or mid-sized business get made once, under time pressure, by whoever needed the tool. Then they’re never revisited. Not because anyone decided not to, but because…
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The Most Dangerous Business Myth Is That You Can Optimize Everything
Walk into almost any leadership meeting and listen carefully to the language. The company wants to grow revenue without increasing costs. Improve customer experience without extending delivery times. Accelerate innovation while reducing…
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The Most Valuable Asset in a Small Business May Be the One Its Owner Cannot Sell
A quiet but consequential shift is beginning inside small and midsize businesses. Owners are discovering that the greatest obstacle to a successful transition is often not finding a buyer, arranging financing, or…
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Smarter Capital Planning for Workplace Assets
Equipment purchases influence much more than a company’s balance sheet because they shape productivity, budgeting priorities, and the ability to respond to new opportunities. Smarter capital planning for workplace assets reflects a…
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7 Hidden Costs of Uncontrolled Design Revisions
A product change can look harmless when someone approves it on a screen. The expense often appears later, when purchasing orders the previous component or a supplier builds from an outdated drawing.…
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Dour jobs report cools off recent employment hot streak
After four months of positive job growth, the labor market took a step back in July, shedding 23,000 jobs and giving economists concern that the labor market is moving into dire territory.…
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Low Turnover Doesn’t Always Equal Loyalty. Nearly Half the Workforce Is Staying Out of Fear
On paper, this is the calmest the American workforce has looked in years. People aren’t quitting. The frantic churn of the Great Resignation has given way to something employers have long wanted:…
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Strategic Marketing Begins With Deciding Where to Stop Spending
TLDR: Small marketing teams are judged on what they launch, so they keep launching, and the budget quietly fills with activity that never produces an enquiry. The strategic marketing work that actually…
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Marketing for Small Businesses: What Your Agency Will Not Tell You Until It Is Too Late
TLDR: A small business owner once showed me three years of agency reports, every one full of impressions and reach, none of it tied to a single sale. He had paid roughly…
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Cyclospora outbreak raises concern over safety of food supply
Michigan has reported the first two deaths in what has become a sprawling cyclosporiasis outbreak, reaching across multiple states and potentially numerous food sources. Cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the Cyclospora…
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The Afternoon a Prospect Told Me the Deal Was Decided Before Our First Call
In March 2026 I opened a discovery call expecting to run our usual introduction, and the founder on the other end stopped me inside the first minute. He said he had already…
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Home mortgage outlook in limbo, as Treasury yields soar upward
At its latest meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee—the arm of the Federal Reserve responsible for setting interest rates—voted to hold rates steady for the fifth consecutive meeting. While the decision was…
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How SMEs Can Prepare Financially Before Expanding Into a New Market
For many small and medium-sized businesses, expansion feels exciting at first—until the numbers start asking tougher questions. A new market can bring more customers, stronger revenue, and long-term growth, but it also…
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Strategic Marketing When the Buyer Is 3,000 Miles Away: Lessons From Cross-Border Luxury Real Estate
TLDR: Selling a six-figure purchase to someone who has never met you, in a market they have never visited, forces a marketing discipline most businesses never build: answer the disqualifying questions before…
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The Leadership Skills I Needed Most Weren’t in Any Book I Read While Building This Company
I read a lot of leadership books in my early years running AppMakers USA. Good ones, too – the kind that get recommended in every founder circle. I absorbed the frameworks, took…
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Managing Vendor Deliveries During a Fast Launch
A fast launch puts pressure on every part of a small or midsize business, especially when multiple vendors are trying to deliver goods within a short time frame. Owners are often focused…
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Talks with Iran fail to resume, despite recent halt on attacks
As the Middle East conflict drags on, once again the United States has halted their retaliatory attacks against Iran with the understanding that negotiations are set to resume. However, Iran has given…
