What prompted this article was a client who was unhappy with me. I had given them some feedback and it hit a nerve and they told me.
There’s a time when I would have simply responded with a very logical email explaining why I was right and suck it up and follow my instructions.
And I was [...]

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This week the Heart of Business Momentum course began, AND we relaunched the Business Oasis (it was badly in need of a facelift since it’s original launch in 2005). Crazy busy. So I gave myself the mercy of reprinting an article. And it is a good reminder for me, because it’s all about teaching, getting [...]

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Why do you make certain mistakes over and over again? No matter how hard you try to fix or control the situation, they seem beyond your control.
For instance, I was working with a client who has a number of staff working under him that he wanted to delegate to more efficiently. Despite his efforts, the [...]

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“So what was the leap you made, Mark, from having a just-okay private practice to really experiencing momentum?”
Kate Williams, my collaboratrix at Heart of Business, had put the question to me. She had admitted that although she had years of experience in small business, and although she had helped a university bookstore quadruple sales, she [...]

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I connected with Pam Slim first through Havi Brooks, and then through getting to know her on Twitter. And, we seemed to hit it off, and so she was kind enough to include me on a list of people to receive a copy of her book to review, Escape from Cubicle Nation–From Corporate Prisoner to [...]

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About two weeks ago, my wife Holly and I planned our first date, with friends watching our boys, since November 11, 2008- which is when our aforementioned adopted twin sons were born. If you’re a parent, especially a parent of twins, or know someone, you know why five months had gone by without a date.
Of [...]

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Our online community, the Business Oasis, has been rife with some great debates recently. One centered on whether, when you write articles or blog posts, you should talk to your readers as a friend and peer, or as an “expert” speaking down from on high.
You can be a friend to people and share the vulnerability [...]

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