To be successful implementing new software takes the right mindset.  It may take the right software and it may take the right people, but it definitely takes the right mindset.  It takes the right mindset on the part of business owners, upper management, and the people on the front lines doing the work and using [...]

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A Sage Software survey of some 1500 small business owners found guarded optimism about their financial future.  They reported that cost cutting and financial conservatism were still the most frequent strategies being used, but that 62% of respondents expressed the belief that the economy will improve by middle 2011.  This is consistent with our discussions with [...]

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  I’m about halfway through a book called Drive, by Dan Pink. It’s a paradigm shifting book which basically says everything we thought we knew about motivation is wrong, especially as it relates to money and using the “carrot and stick” approach to managing. His premise (and supported research) says that money really only works [...]

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