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By the greatest of popular demand, he's back! With comments like 'Dynamic!', 'Wow!', 'Phenomenal!', 'Excellent!', 'Down to Earth and Practical!', 'Terrific Content!', 'Energetic!' and 'Humorous!', we have arranged for Donald Cooper to speak to our conference once again!! 


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(D) ARTICLES ON HOW TO MANAGE MORE EFFECTIVELY:
Simple truth about Benchmarking 1. The simple truth about "Benchmarking and Best Practices".
Wha'ts Possible 2. What's possible in your business... and what's next?
Seven questions to ask your staff 3. The 7 questions to ask your staff that will change your business forever.
Skills Inventory 4. How and why to do a Skills Inventory of your staff. 
Painfully High Cost 5. The painfully high cost of cutting your price!
Are you a serious student 6. Are you a serious student of your numbers?
Fatal Mistake 7. Avoid this potentially fatal mistake in your business!
Idea Fest 8. Create an "Idea-Fest" in your business!
Clarity on Change 9. Some clarity on "Change"!
Struggle with Change 10. Why do businesses struggle with change?
Struggle with Change 11. Businesses don't die from a single shot to the head!
Struggle with Change 12. Is the "currency crutch" being kicked out from under your business?
Struggle with Change 13. Are you struggling to be a more effective coach in your business?
Struggle with Change 14. Do you have a "see-aheadascope" in your business?
Struggle with Change 15. There's no such thing as "Corporate Goals"!
Struggle with Change 16. Do you know who and what is really making money in your business?
Do the math.. the simple truth sbout making more money 17. Do the math...the simple truth about making more money in your business!
Tools for Success 18. Tools for success...powerful lessons from a guy in Canmore!
8 Powerful lessons from the superbowl 19. Eight business lessons from the Super Bowl
20. "Process" ain't sexy... but your business is dead without it.
21. If your industry in consolidating... and most are... you have four choices!
22. Three quick tips to building an effective TEAM in your business.
23. 10 tips for achieving world-class effectiveness in your business.
24. Do you have all three ingredients required for business success?
25. Attention business owners... are you paying yourself twice?
26. Are you listening to the right people?
27. Treasure the complainers... for they speak for many others!
28. Is your business experiencing "Death by email"?
29. What should you be "losing" in your business?
30. Are your front-line people driving customers away... and whose fault is it?
31. Here's one word that will transform your annual planning process.
32. Are you getting too damn casual in your business?
33. Are you creating "the next" in your business?
34. What needs fixing in your business?  Use our simple one-page "Audit" to get to the truth!
35. Effective coaches do these 10 things... how do you stack up?
36. Are you clearly focused in your business... or have you lost your way?
37. Are you lumping your staff into the "muddy middle"?
38. Four simple questions that will make you a world-class manager!
39. Change your language... change your results!
40. Is communication the big issue in business... or is it trust?
41. How many people in your company are just showing up for a paycheck?
42. Here are 4 simple things you can do, right now, to grow your business this year!
43. An income generating opportunity that most businesses never think of!
44. Will anyone want to buy your business?
45. Have you any idea where your business is going?
46. Do you have a specific "Profit Improvement Plan" for next year?
47. Stop going to Trade Shows & Conferences without a "list"!
48. Are you aiming high enough in your business?
49. The incredible power of defining your business by how you help.. not by what you sell!
50. Defining the real "purpose" of your business meetings and conferences.
51. If you don't understand your numbers, you don't understand your business!
52. When was the last time you challenged your suppliers to serve you better?
53. Just like winning in sports, generating a healthy bottom line in your business is a 'game of inches'!
54. If you think running a business today is tougher than ever before you are only half right.
55. Are you asking the right question when something goes wrong in your business?
56. Do you have an emotional attachment to an uneconomic asset or an obsolete business model that's putting your future at risk?
57. Will you be an 'offshoring' entrepreneur... or an 'offshoring' victim?
58. Let's stop this Christmas Bonus nonsense!
59. Are you committed to improving your bottom line in 2007?
60. How to get dozens of business improving ideas for about $5.00 each!
61. Is everyone in your business "singing from the same hymn sheet"?
62. An important business lesson from 3500 cheese factories that aren't around anymore... and from a few that are. 
63.Are you a "Toyota" or a "Hyundai"?  Two different approaches to improving efficiency and quality in your in your business.
64.To succeed in business today, you need wisdom, passion and focus... and 2 out of 3 ain't good enough!
65. What the world's water crisis tells us about creating opportunities in any business!
66. Does your model need a reality check... before it's too late?
67. The human side of business leadership!
68. When the relationship between a boss and employee isn't working out, the reason is usually simple:
69. How many of your staff have "quit", but keep coming in anyway.. and whose fault is it?
70. What could you learn from your suppliers?
71. The future belongs to those who can see possibilities.. and who know what to do with them.
72. The simple truth about effective business leadership... in just 3 minutes:
73. The power of meaningful work.
74. What's unacceptable in your business?
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