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Five Lessons Reality TV Teaches Us About Business Success

By Stephen Garber I admit, I love certain reality TV shows. No, not eating spiders or watching people in group homes, and certainly not the news today (oh, boy). I

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Dangling the carrot not working? Here’s why

By Greta Schulz You can’t motivate anyone to do anything. People are self-motivated. They are motivated either to work hard or stay in bed. Creating an environment of motivation is

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Communicate, Communicate & Communicate Some More

By Stephen Garber Effective communication is a critical component of leadership across the board for all businesses, and its impact on business can mean the difference between failure and success

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Steve Garber
Canadian pharmaceutical maker Apotex investing $180 million in South Florida

Amid all the political talk of bringing back manufacturing jobs, South Florida has scored a major victory. Canadian pharmaceutical giant Apotex is investing $184 million in Miramar to develop a

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Brightline names a new CEO amid plans for further growth

South Florida may be just the first location for a high-speed train service like Brightline. The company announced Wednesday the addition of Dave Howard, a veteran executive from the sports and

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Michael Reininger and Dave Howard discuss Brightline in front of a scale model of Downtown Miami.
South Florida is hedge fund heaven

A few months back, I was contacted by April Klimley, a financial writer who had relocated from New York City to Delray Beach. With a background of working for major

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Citrix deal indicates state incentives matter

Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS), which is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, has selected Raleigh over Florida for a 400-person expansion. Job incentives played a key role in Citrix selecting Raleigh over

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How Clinton’s defeat turbocharged a South Florida stock

Back on Aug. 18, I wrote a blog about a “Black Swan” event that hammered the stock of the GEO Group (NYSE: GEO), a Boca Raton company that operates prisons

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Geo Group's headquarters in Boca Raton
Death star for Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida?

There’s a big feud between Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature with Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida right in the crosshairs. A bill in the Florida House would kill

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Development Becoming an Increasingly Important Economic Driver for Florida

By Darcie Lunsford Tourism, agriculture, international trade, aviation, aerospace, life sciences and the marine industries most often are the sectors that come to mind as being the main turbines that

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Does your sales team own its goals?

 By Greta Schulz This is the time most of you are creating or enacting goals and objectives for 2017, including the number crunching for revenue forecasts. Are you doing it

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Brightline unveils cool new trains

The Brightline high-speed rail service unveiled its first train set, nicknamed BrightBlue, during an event Wednesday morning in West Palm Beach. The unveiling took place at Workshop b, its 12-acre

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BrightBlue train Workshop b