Interviewing candidates is not easy.  For most companies, they don’t have a professional HR department or Interview expert. So, we thought it would be good to investigate some proven strategies. One of those is called the SWAN formula, named after John Swan, an executive recruiter. These letters also stand for Smart, Works hard, Ambitious, and Nice. &nbs...

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What a great question.  Every business we work with, has not just one hiring disaster, but generally a few more.  The longer in business the more stories of that ‘bad hire’.  While some of these make great stories, especially over your beverage of choice, hiring disasters are on average three to five times costlier to an organization, than simply wha...

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Servant Leadership is nearly 50 years old, but its advice is timeless–especially for working with Millennials. BY BRUCE POON TIP   Founder, G Adventures  @brucepoontip (This article is reprinted courtesy of Inc.com and the author Bruce Poon Tip).  We have founded our company on the same ideals and when we came across this recent article pu...

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“Enjoy failure and learn from it,” Dyson once said. “You can never learn from success.” When you choose to open a business, your chances at success—and satisfaction—are greater if you love the work you do. This is Passion! Passion is what will make the difference when it gets tough.  It’s what will make you get up in the morning when you would rat...

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Every business runs into obstacles.  The list at times can feel like its endless.  The key, is not that they will occur, but in how they deal with them, and what they do to overcome. It is this that will determine whether you trip and fall, or overcome them unscathed. To help you, we have put together proven strategies that will help you tackle them succ...

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