Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Photo credit: ID 8861152 © Paul Jantz | Dreamstime.com. One of the benefits of being self-employed is paying less tax than you would if you were paid like an employee on a W-2 tax basis. If you’re smart, you’re getting paid on 1099 tax basis, deducting your business expenses, and contributing to your own retirement plan to lower your tax bill. (This two-minute video explains how this works.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When it comes to strategic planning, every organization will go about scheduling their meetings in a different way. Regardless, having scheduled strategy progress and project management meetings will remain essential to fulfill your organizational goals and objectives. For more on how to structure your meeting schedule following a strategic planning session: How to Improve Strategy Implementation with a Regular Meeting Schedule.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

I was recently talking to a business buyer about what he was looking for in a business. What he said all made sense; a B2B business, logical size range, wide geographic area, etc. Then he said he needed a business on which he could pay off the debt (SBA, 10-year term loan) in half the time. That’s 25% annual growth, from day one. And yes, 25% can be achieved.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Fifteen years ago, while host Patrick McGinnis was a student at Harvard Business School, he wrote a column for the student newspaper about his observation that the student body’s social schedules were driven by two forces: The Fear of Missing Out and the Fear of a Better Option — or FOMO and FOBO, for short. Then McGinnis graduated, started his career, and mostly forgot about it — until a reporter looking into FOMO’s origins tracked it back to him.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Good specs force the difficult conversations to happen before they are expensive. If you hand a good spec to a builder or a programmer, the chances that you get back the system you’re hoping for are dramatically increased. For a building, the spec is architectural plans. But give an architect a good spec and she’s much more likely to design a building you’d be happy to live in.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s about discovery, incubation, and acceleration.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A wandering mind can pay off.

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