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Every petition needs signatures to show that there is support for this issue and to hopefully get the powers to be to make the changes you suggest. How many petitions you need depends on many factors. If your petition is about a local issue, you should have the signatures of 100% of those affected by the current situation and the suggested changes. When everyone concerned is in support of changing the situation as it exists, then you will get results.

In most cases you need to have the majority of the signatures of a group in order for the petition to be recognized as valid. State governments, for example, require that the number of petition signatures you have be a percentage of the voters in the region. Since this varies from one state to another, you should make sure you check it out before you submit the petition to ensure that you have the required number.

The more petition signatures you gather, the better the petition will be. You should not stop when you have the required number. In the case of a petition, more is better, so you should collect as many signatures as you can. The signatures must also be valid stating that those who did sign their names do believe in this cause. Continue reading ‘Getting the Petition Signatures You Need’ »

Becoming an effective boss is critical for any entrepreneur with plans to grow a company. On top of the myriad of legal, managerial, and personnel issues an owner must deal with, most also find themselves in the role of mediator — dealing with employees who don’t (or won’t) get along.

The cardinal rule of handling problems between employees is doing ignore the issue. Any conflict that lasts more than a day or two must be dealt with head-on. Allowing inter-employee conflicts to fester results in reduced productivity, lower morale, and can strongly influence the level of respect the workers have for you, the owner. Continue reading ‘How to Solve Employee Conflicts in Your Small Business’ »

A successful business is a product of good marketing and building strategic relationships with existing and potential clients. It does not take much to be able to do this. Strategic business relationships are more than just a product of constant communication or sending items to clients which are actually marketing collateral. You also have to make an investment and one such thing you can do that is by means of handing out corporate giveaways.

It leaves a good impression – When you get in touch with people on a professional level, it’s almost expected that you will coordinate with them on a professional note. Every good gesture is seen as a logical process in conducting good business. But giving out corporate giveaways sort of breaks that because you end up giving them a functional item that can also serve as a symbolic present or a token of appreciation for the time they have spent with you. Continue reading ‘3 Reasons Why You Should Give Away Corporate Gifts’ »

Don’t ask your people to do more than you are willing to do. As a leader, your own preparation for everything you do has to be exemplary. If you are dedicated to success and will do whatever it takes to achieve it, the rest of your team will be, too.

As a leader, your high standards of performance, attention to detail, and above all-how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. A lot of leaders want to tell people what to do, but they don’t provide the example. “Do as I say, not as I do,” doesn’t cut it when leading people to a destination of success. Continue reading ‘To Be a Successful Leader’ »

I don’t know about you, but I see magic everywhere!  One definition of magic is, “Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural.”  Another is, “Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects.”  When something is “super” natural, it means it seems more than natural, right?  Well, what’s natural?

When something is beyond the explainable “to me” is seems like magic.  I wake up in the morning (no, that’s not the magic part!), and if I turn on the light or the music, I have no idea how the particular mechanisms works to bring light or music into the room.  Sure, I understand the basics, but truly, who can explain electricity, light and sound?  Not how it works but WHY?

Now, I know some of you are engineers and can probably explain those simple phenomena to me.  However, as things get more complex, the magic seems even more amazing.  What about how computers work to send an email to a friend, or that we can store hundreds of songs in a device that’s smaller than a wallet?  Or that you can take blood out of my body, or hook me up to a machine and tell me all sorts of things about what’s going on inside me.  Even driving my car is amazing. Continue reading ‘Leadership Lessons: Magic of Science’ »