Tonya Hall, founder and CEO of Barzhini, is a media journalist and host of the Tonya Hall Show. The Tonya Hall Show offers captivating interviews from industry movers and shakers that have mastered the power of Social …
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This is cowboy wisdom 101, and can be just as wisely applied to your business mantra: Don’t squat with your spurs on. Or translated, never stop selling your company.
Businesses always need to be selling themselves and the changes they …
The most important message for small businesses and this final mirror test is not “get a tank” but “think and act like a tank.”
Know what your weapons are and how to compete with them. Know your targets and …
The gauntlet of change is cruel, and change agents are exposed to all of its dastardly personnel.
Since this is the case, leaders need to be seam operators – they operate across the seams of the company.
Two …
In order to drive your change, you have to know who your best customers are. If you are not sure, just remember Pareto’s Principle, or the “80-20 Rule”, which states that 80 percent of your business comes from 20 percent …
Do you know how much I love the warm cookies they serve at the Doubletree? I think about them when I am at other hotels.
We often focus on adding value with your customers, that’s easy… get to know your …
How many of you have actually scanned a QR code? How likely are you to scan another one? And what did you think it was the first time you saw it?
When I first started seeing these things, I liked …
#CyberMonday has become the #1 online shopping day of the year – In order to keep a competitive advantage, business leaders must follow these steps to drive a competitive change.
List for Competitive Change:
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For my new book, Running the Gauntlet, I was looking for advice and information on what it took to be become an agent of change. I turned to the smartest and most reliable people I know, my friends, and asked …
It’s Thanksgiving, and I’m reminded of this excerpt from a favorite leader of mine in his book, The Real Story of the First Thanksgiving:
“…and that it would be more becoming the gratitude they owed to the divine being, …
What can you do to perfect the mood of your company? Bad mood can ruin a company faster than bad business.
I hear leaders talk about changing the culture of a business, and I say fine, but the most important …