Author Archives: Michael Sobus

Selling Your Business- Think Like A Buyer

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Would you pay $6.2 million for this business? That’s a question that business owners who want to sell their business should be asking.  That’s right, the answer will be more important to those who contemplate selling their business in the next year or two than to those buying a business. Allow me to explain.  Daniel [...]

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Why Ray Lewis?

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The dust has settled on another Super Bowl and Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens have celebrated with great tumult. And yet again what seemed like a less talented team swept through the NFL Playoffs to become improbable Super Bowl Champs.  This happens a lot, remember the NY Giants in 2007 and the NE Patriots [...]

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What’s the Recipe for Business Success?

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Seems as if most business owners that I meet are searching for that one recipe for  business success, trying the latest shiny new thing in hopes that maybe this time they have found what will take them over the top to great success. In Great By Choice authors Jim Collins and Morten Hansen found that [...]

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On The Whole I’d Rather Be Good Than Lucky

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Been doing more and more thinking about the role of luck in business success as I finish final preparations for the Business Book Review of Great By Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen.   The authors found through careful studies of the lucky events that happened to their subject companies, all of the companies studied [...]

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3 Surprisingly Simple Ways To Turbo Charge Your Business

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Now that New Year’s resolutions have been filed away for another year, it is time to turbo charge your business in 2013.  If you’re like most small business owners you’ve got a plan in place or at least an idea or a dream to do more and better, and really grow your business  in 2013. [...]

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Can Monkeys Teach Us Networking?

Have to admit that Social Media, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. seems to be a perfect habitat for monkeys. But Neuromarketing  got me thinking more about monkeys, Social Media and Networking. In What Monkeys Teach Us About Social Media Roger Dooley described the work of Duke researchers who found  that while several areas of the monkey brains [...]

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Any Role for Luck in Business Planning?

Often I wonder what role luck plays in our endeavors.  As a Biochemist I am drawn to the quote from Louis Pasteur, “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” For sure there is no debate that randomness exists whether you are investigating microorganisms as Pasteur did or concentrating on growing your  [...]

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Why Real Entrepreneurs Do Have a Life

Last time we reflected on the only way to truly build Work-Life Balance for the small business owner is to grow from being a technician, namely delivering the goods/services in the business to being a true Entrepreneur. Mike Michalowicz – author of the The Pumpkin Plan really nailed the definition of what an entrepreneur is: [...]

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How My Business Treats Me Bad- Tips on Work Life Balance in Business

Many of my business coaching clients report that they would like to improve Work Life Balance, that is, they want more time for what they like to do outside the business and less time doing those things in their business that they don’t like. That is a tall order for many because to craft time [...]

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Waffle Shop Key Performance Indicators

In our lives there are many examples of signs that warn us of trouble ahead.  Red lights at a traffic crossing, or red flashing lights at a train crossing are examples of warning signs.  These are designed to grab our attention warning us of immediate danger ahead. How about your business?  As the owner wouldn’t [...]

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