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The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Build a Solid Foundation for Your Business
What is the first thing you should do when starting a business? Ask this in a room full of wannabe entrepreneurs and you’ll hear as many different answers as there are people: you need a great product or service, a logo, a website, a business plan… I guarantee almost...
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Are You Putting Off Community Service for “Some Day”? You Could be Holding Back Your Career
“Once I’ve climbed the ladder I’ll finally be in a position to give something back”. How many times have you heard this one? Maybe you’ve even said it yourself? We all want to give back to our communities, to serve others, and to go to bed at night with the warm fuzzy...
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Why Hiring Veterans Makes Sense — and Cents
Veterans are determined, resourceful, and hard-working. They’re natural leaders with experience leading teams through extraordinary challenges. So why are so many of our country’s vets undervalued and underemployed, stuck in production line jobs that don’t allow them...
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Why PointNorth is Proud to Support the 100th Veterans Day Anniversary
There are very few people alive who remember the first Veterans Day — or Armistice Day as it was previously known — a celebration of the end of World War I. The Great War. The War To End All Wars. The war that has been consigned to history and is now nothing more than...
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The Secret to Cultivating a Great Company Culture (And Why You Care)
“Don’t be evil.” It’s such a short, bold statement that it makes most people laugh the first time they hear it. And yet, it’s one of the greatest assets Google has: it’s the basis of their culture. 87% of organizations struggle with culture and engagement — aka “How...
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The Simple Solution to Any Complex Business Problem
When I was a mentor for a company in the Portland Metropolitan area, they had a bit of a reputation with the IRS, but not the kind you might expect. They got on the IRS’s radar not because they had shady business practices, but rather they told the agency they had...
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