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Crisis Leadership: Do Your Job!

Crisis Leadership: Do Your Job! By Keith J. Cunningham April 9, 2020 Over the last two weeks, I have held dozens of Board of Directors meetings […]

Cash is Still the King… Crisis Survival Guide

Crisis Survival Guide By Keith J. Cunningham March 28, 2020 Five birds are sitting side by side on a telephone wire. You shoot one of […]

Business Oxygen

Business Oxygen By Keith J. Cunningham Oxygen is something we rarely think about until it is cut off and then it becomes our highest priority. The […]

Keith’s Log of Lessons Learned

In the late 1980’s, as the real estate market in the Southwestern part of the United States collapsed, I was wiped out, as were many of […]

Mann Gulch

On August 5, 1949, thirteen men died battling a relatively small blaze that turned deadly at Mann Gulch. Upon investigating the circumstances of why most of […]

Earn the Right

In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine, Mark Hurd, the Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard was asked to recall the best advice he every received. Mr. […]

Core Competence

It is so easy to make money when times are good, the wind is at your back and the tide is rising. In fact, for most […]

A Solution Based Life

Everyone I know has problems. We all have things that don’t go as planned or have challenges which catch us off guard. When you stop to […]

Myth #1 — Financial Freedom

Every time I speak these days, someone in the audience wants to talk about their frustration with obtaining “Financial Freedom, Passive Income and More Time.” This […]

Myth #2 – Passive Income

This is the second installment in a three part series on wealth and money. Part one of the series was on Financial Freedom. Part two is […]

Myth #3 – More Time

More Time This is the third installment in a three part series on wealth and money. Part one was on the myth of Financial Freedom. Part […]

Falling for the Cause

If you are like most people I know, every year about this time you begin to notice that all those New Year´s resolutions you made about […]

The Power of Using OPM

Most people are in the “rat race” financially, going round and round, living paycheck to pay check. One of the keys to getting out of the […]

Expand the Pie Before You Divide It

In almost all negotiations, there comes a time when the parties get stuck. I have said repeatedly what I want, you have said repeatedly what you […]

Money Follows Management

Robert Kiyosaki, in his book Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing, points out on the opening page, his rich dad’s advice on investing, “Don’t be average.” The […]

Negotiations are in Paradox

Have you ever been in a negotiation and gotten everything you wanted? Have you ever been in a negotiation and didn’t get anything that you wanted? […]

Creating a Successful Business Plan

As I discussed in the article The Power of Using OPM…Other People’s Money, most entrepreneurs get lost in the maze of figuring out what makes an […]

Achieving POWER in all your Negotiations

Anytime you are in a negotiation, you are there for one reason and one reason only: To do better than your alternatives. You are negotiating to […]