Small Business Blog from Atlantic Canada

Welcome to the revised version of Carnival of Small Business Issues. I hope to pick this carnival up on a regular basis. If you are interested in hosting the Carnival let me know and we’ll set you up.

Leading in the best of times has been a challenge. Leaders never have all the information they need to make the decision and waiting for the complete information results in inaction. In Leadership in the era of economic uncertainty, Ram Charan (no relation to me) succinctly puts it: “We will not know when we have turned the corner and we cannot envision the shape and scope of the world that will emerge. What we can be sure of is that this is a time of tumultuous change and with change comes both the danger and opportunity.”

Just as you cannot solve a problem without identifying one, you cannot plan for risks without identifying risks. So whether you are managing a project, program or business, it is prudent to spend some time identifying the risk drivers. Without getting into jargons, let’s discuss a common sense approach to identifying risks.

[ September 14, 2009; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Rivers Corbett, President of The Marketing Factory, is now sharing his marketing tips in a series of “Cash Cow Marketing” seminars to be held across Atlantic Canada. The seminars will teach you how to take advantage of today’s unique marketing strategies and market a business or organization for less and break free of a reliance on “the old way” of doing advertising and marketing.

[ September 15, 2009; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Rivers Corbett, President of The Marketing Factory, is now sharing his marketing tips in a series of “Cash Cow Marketing” seminars to be held across Atlantic Canada. The seminars will teach you how to take advantage of today’s unique marketing strategies and market a business or organization for less and break free of a reliance on “the old way” of doing advertising and marketing.