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Between big competition and smaller budgets, small businesses face unique challenges on a daily basis.  Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to mitigate these challenges and grow your small business, like taking advantage of social media and banding together with other small business owners.  What's more, you don't have to do it alone.  With these simple tips and the support of 'buy local' organizations like Independent We Stand, your small business can tackle any challenge, big or small. .....Read More

Best-selling author, leadership expert, and executive coach Sylvia Lafair PhD is Founder of Creative Energy Options (CEO, Inc). Her firm began as a personal growth center in 1986 and through a combination of events became a well respected leadership and team building organization. As Sylvia tells it, "We were doing a program for parents whose teenagers were driving them bonkers. At the end of the night a man asked me to work with his senior leadership team that was fighting like a bunch of kids. Curious, I went to see what could happen using my skills and the rest, as they say is history". Finding roots of office politics and conflict and changing it to creativity and collaboration is her passion.

Shontaye Hawkins

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Tony Gambone is a tremendous interviewer. As a radio host he is not only one to be listened too, but pulls an amazing amount of useful and practical information from his guests, all in a very relaxed and