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Clint Greenleaf

Stop The Layoffs!

In tough economic times companies notoriously try to cut costs by resorting to their fallback plan: employee layoffs. Millions of them....

Clint Greenleaf

You Need Help

It's hard to ask for help. Pride isn't necessarily admirable, but our smarts and hard work helped us get here... and admitting that we...

Clint Greenleaf

How Well Do You Know Your Cash Situation?

There is no single aspect of any business more important than cash. In fact, it's the only really unifying element of all businesses --...

Clint Greenleaf

Do You Have a Meteorite Plan?

Some of the best innovations we've had in business come from what I call the Meteorite Plan. The premise is, what would you do if a huge...

Clint Greenleaf

The Vision Myth

I spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs -- some would say too much time -- and invariably the conversation flows into the first few...

Clint Greenleaf

Travel Made Easy

I travel - a lot. Somewhere between 100 and 200 flights a year. I also have about that many hotel stays, and I still drive a lot of...

Clint Greenleaf

Making Time

I once received a last-minute invitation to visit Ireland's most famous band, U2, in Dublin along with a long week of parties and...

Clint Greenleaf

Paranoia: Your Best Friend

I've spent almost my entire business life paranoid. It's not the most relaxing way to live -- I envy friends who walk around with a...

Clint Greenleaf

The Power of Forgiveness

Tony Alessandra, the author of The Platinum Rule, is a hall of fame professional speaker, a bestselling author, and is close friends with...

Clint Greenleaf

Babies, Business and the Bottom Line

My wife is a trusting woman. She is very smart, and yet when our oldest child was an infant, for some reason she still thought it would...

Clint Greenleaf

Finding The Right Incentives

I’ve spent my life working with incentives. Knowing how they work and using them effectively has proven to be one of the most powerful...

Clint Greenleaf

Ditch Your Elevator Pitch

Elevator pitches are good in theory -- take a complicated concept and distill it into a short message. Most of the time, however, they...