Kaleidoscope Business Options, Inc.

FOCAL POINT is published approximately six times a year as a service to our valued clients and colleagues.  Our goal with the FOCAL POINT newsletter is to continue our mission in helping businesses successfully survive and thrive in this fast-paced business arena.

Each issue provides insight and perspective on one aspect of growing a business while challenging readers to gauge their progress in a meaningful and actionable way.  With each issue, we hope we get you to stop and think about where you are and where you are going.

Newsletters are arranged by topic so you can zero in on those topics that interest you.  Click on the topic to see titles, then use the form on the Contact Us page to request a copy.

BUSINESS PROCESSES
BUSINESS VALUE
CAPITAL
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
PLANNING
SUCCESSION




















BUSINESS PROCESSES
Do It Better by Not Doing It Yourself 
Beat the Recession by Managing Change Effectively
Build Processes That Work Through Growth
Produce New Results with Project Management
Expand Capacity by Improving Business Processes
Make Your Family Business a "Real Business"
Grow Through a Recession by Leveraging Resources
Business Processes That Work Through Lunch

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BUSINESS VALUE 
Use the Economic Downturn to Innovate
Leverage the Recession by Building Value
Growing Business Value
Measure More Than the Numbers
Build Value by Conserving Resources
Is Your Business Growing Up or Just Growing?
Build Future Value with a Shareholder Mindset
Grow Success by Giving to Others
Moving? Make it Count 

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CAPITAL
Capitalizing Business Growth: Part I
Capitalizing Business Growth: Part II
Need Funding? Stretch Your Working Capital 

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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Take Time Off to Build Performance
Build Value with Human Capital Partnerships
Expand Capacity with Jobs that Work
Support Growth with a Strategic Hiring Process
Growing Capacity – The New Team Member
Developing a Business Growth Team
Building a High Performance Workplace
Building Success Skills
Growing Fast? Pause and Celebrate Successes

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS 
Reduce the Risk of Changing Your Technology
Grow With Systems That Work
Growing Information Systems, Part I
Growing Information Systems, Part II
Grow by Measuring Success 

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MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Are You Ready for Employee Shareholders?
Increase Success by Rewarding Management
Grow to the Next Level by Shifting Gears
Growing Executive Capacity: Shall We Dance?
Are You Ready to Make a Board Work?
Building a Major League Management Team
Grow Management Capacity by Delegating

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MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
Prosper in Any Economy with a "Success Culture"
Grow with Customers that Build Your Bottom Line
Want Economic Improvement?  Make It Happen
Is Your Relationship Balance Sheet in Good Shape?
Optimize Performance by Changing Business Habits
Grow Yourself Out of Daily Operations
Grow Yourself Into Management Systems
Grow Success with a Versatile Management Toolkit
Improve Performance by Questioning Success
Stay Alert to Thrive on Change
Too Much "Busyness" Hurts Business
Building the Resilience to Survive 

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PLANNING 
Time to Shift into a "Re-growth" Mode
Get "Recovery Ready" with a Longer-Term Vision
Use Strategic Filters to Analyze Growth Opportunities
Are You Sabotaging Your Ability to Implement?
Improve Performance by Adding Perspective
Translate Your Vision
Stay Focused to Successfully Implement Strategy
Growing Your Forward View
Contingency Planning: Why Just Y2K?
Business Growth – Gains or Pains?
Make Time To Grow
Planning to Succeed 

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SUCCESSION 
Grow Value with Succession Planning
Do You Plan to Finish the Entrepreneurial Race?

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