JT Pedersen
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Crisis, Chaos, Panic, and Its Corollary

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Crisis, Chaos & Panic have a corollary: Decisions made in avacuum can often create explosive pressure.

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Get Over Ourselves, Get Back in the Saddle!

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Americans have long seen themselves as free, progressive, dynamic, and proud. And unique. Why is America stagnating then? Maybe we need to get over ourselves.

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How High Will Gas Climb at the Pump?

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How high will it climb? The sky is falling! The sky is falling! How high… The issue isn’t whether it will, or how far even, rather host–fast!

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9 Business Inputs That Can Make or Break Your Day

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Many business decisions are made based on what is thought to be known. Instead of what is. Question is, have you actively thought about what you -need- to know?

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What Makes a Good Business Model?

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What makes a good business model? Typical responses address what it should do. Yet another family of generalities are not addressed, typically overlooked.

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Overcoming the Infamous “Hiring Freeze”

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Hiring freezes notwithstanding, sometimes you still need to hire. Building a business case and preparing properly ‘before the pitch’ can help ensure success.

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What Keeps Small Businesses Away From Success?

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Quite often, what keeps a young business from greater success, is the business founders themselves.

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Can Leaders Be Taught Virtues?

Is too much emphasis is placed on developing skills, and little or none on Virtue? Can we teach virtues to our Leaders and executives?

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Do You Have: Social Media Paranoia

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Be paranoid if you wish: Go ahead, bury your heads in the sand. But realize it is human nature to want to share or broadcast information. SM is here to stay.

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Open For Business: 4.98 Follow Up

Response to last week’s article: The minimum transaction charge is gone. The intent was never to hurt customers at all.