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By Doug Rice You can’t be in business without making decisions. You probably make hundreds of decisions every day, most of which are made quickly without too much thought. The problem is that, when we allow our subconscious to make decisions for us, we often fall victim to the biases to which it defaults. You [...]

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By Doug Rice Recent research in organizational behavior suggests that there is a point at which salary stops mattering so much to workers and more intrinsic things like workplace culture begin to matter more. Even in minimum wage jobs, though, high turnover is rarely due to dissatisfaction in pay. Most people leaving minimum wage jobs [...]

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By Doug Rice We’ve all heard the phrase. It’s well-passed cliché by now. “Content is king.” There’s even been some backlash, because people are tired of hearing it. So, we’ve all analyzed the phrase to death insisting that something else — relationships, context, etc. — is king. But, if we’ll stop obsessing over the semantics, [...]

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By Doug Rice The marketing department owns social media. At least it seems that way, doesn’t it? In the business world, the marketing people set up the accounts, design the templates, craft the messaging, schedule the content, and monitor the replies. As for salespeople, many of them do not even know that their company even [...]

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By Doug Rice Steve Jobs is famous for his unapologetic disregard of market research. “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them,” was his modus operandi. Jobs professed to rely on his intuition to meet the needs of his market… and it worked for him. That’s really great for Steve Jobs. [...]

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By Doug Rice Business often approach social media in one way: as an opportunity to broadcast marketing messages. If they can build a following on Twitter, get “Likes” on Facebook, etc., they will be able to promote their products to more people without having to pay for costlier traditional media. While using the social web [...]

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By Doug Rice   If you haven’t gotten into it yet, If This Then That (IFTTT) is an amazing platform for automating all sorts of activity on the web. As I began to explore it, though, I found that I was primarily using it for blogging. As a business person who blogs and tries to get [...]

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By Doug Rice Your career. Your faith. Your hobbies. Your art. Your family. Your life. There is one thing that all of these pieces of you have in common: people. There is a social aspect to everything you are involved in. Whether you are trying to get a promotion, trying to get published, or trying [...]

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By Doug Rice This may come as a shock, but people like to be shown gratitude. They may not say it. They may not even expect it. But deep down inside, secretly, they long for it. They want to know that they are valued. They want you to say, “Thank you.” But you’re a business [...]

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By Doug Rice Fiction is a mirror for reality. It helps us to more fully understand ourselves and others. For aspiring leaders, it’s essential every now and then to get into a good story, vicariously experience what the characters go through, and reflect on its implications for their lives. For the purpose of developing necessary [...]