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Editor’s Note: CNY Executive Q&A is a feature appearing periodically in The Central New York Business Journal, authored by guest writer Jeff Knauss, who is co-founder of his own digital-marketing firm. In each edition, Knauss chats with a different executive at a Central New York business or nonprofit, with the interview transcript appearing in a […]

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When a company’s computers are hacked, management’s first impulses often are to invest in better software, better virus protection packages, better computers, or even entire networks.  But they may be putting the emphasis in the wrong place.  The problem’s root cause is usually not the technology, but people. Organizations that take a simplistic approach, assuming

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When you consider the recent U.S. Farm Bill signed Dec. 20, 2018, tax law is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. A farm bill is passed about every five years that lays out the government’s policies for food and nutrition, agriculture, forestry, and conservation. The farm bill has wide-reaching effects, including school

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As advisors and community economic-development specialists, we are often approached by individuals who are looking to start a business or expand an existing one with one common question: “Are there any grants available for my business”? There is a simple and a complex answer to this question. The simple answer is yes there are some grants

When salespeople can’t do their job  Thousands of salespeople work in conditions that are stacked against their success. Even though it’s 2019, the belief persists that “nothing happens until someone sells something.” Repeated so often, no one challenges it. Yet, those six words help explain why salespeople are given “special treatment” by management and barely

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There are tons of self-help and qualified experts giving advice on how to motivate employees — but is motivating a business the same thing? Not necessarily.  A business is made up of employees, so the assumption is that if you motivate employees, you will motivate the business. That is not necessarily the case.  For example, if