| Bringing in the big guns
After several years of owning a business, it's common for an entrepreneur to get caught up in the daily running of the business, and thus lose track of the bigger picture. The best way I know to get past this is to take a short trip into the future. Get a picture in your mind of what your business will look like once it is running like a Swiss watch, and write it down. Not only will this help motivate you into action, it will form a measurable target that you and your team can shoot for. How big a company do you want? How profitable do you want to be? How many locations would you like to have? What type of service offering would you like to develop? What will your corporate culture be like? These types of questions can be extremely powerful. For example, Giesbrecht wanted Globe Printers to become the Fraser Valley's largest commercial printer, without sacrificing his family life.
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St. Cloud Apollo will have to wait another season to get that elusive win over its South Side nemesis. Junior Grant Spanier and sophomore Blake Vogel had a goal and an assist each and junior Jared Maetche added two assists as St. Cloud Tech rode a balanced attack to a 5-2 victory over St. Cloud Apollo on Tuesday night at the Municipal Athletic Complex. The win completed the Tigers' sixth consecutive season sweep over the Eagles. "You know it's going to be tough every time against Tech," Apollo senior Jake Althaus said. "It's been so long since we've beaten them. We tried to come out and be that team to finally stop them, but we just came out flat." "It's always a huge game (with Apollo)," Tech senior Alex Coulter said. "A lot of us are friends off the ice, but as soon as the game starts, it's always on." Both sides came out flying early, with captivating back and forth play marking the game's first 90 seconds, but Tech quickly made their mark on the game with the first goal.
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At Crunchtime, Clinton and Obama Make Their Final Appeals
Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stumped throughout Prince George's County this week in last-ditch efforts to sway voters before Tuesday's historic, high-stakes primary election in Maryland, Virginia and the District. .
Manufacturing Case Study: Reliability at Abitibi
Feb. 8, 2008 -- Like many U.S.-based manufacturing sectors, the pulp and paper industry is facing an unprecedented and challenging business climate resulting from significant increases in energy and raw material costs, heightened global competition and the strengthening of the Canadian dollar. To combat these trends, newsprint, commercial printing papers and wood product company AbitibiBowater knew that adopting asset reliability, within its corporate continuous improvement program, was a key business strategy to address these industry challenges and become the low-cost producer of quality paper products within the marketplace. .
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