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The Founders Blog
Welcome to The Founders Blog by Dr. Phil Foster. This blog is your go-to resource for insights into building a thriving online membership business, drawing from my extensive journey in launching and mentoring successful ventures. Each post is crafted to inspire, guide, and empower you, whether you're just starting out or scaling up. Your future as a successful online membership business owner begins here.
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Feb 20, 20143 min read
No More Employees
It would seem strange to concern ourselves with the labor participation rate 20 years from now. However, as a practitioner of Strategic...
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Jan 20, 20141 min read
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 2: Alignment
——————– #2014 #business #Analysis #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #BusinessConsulting #StrategicForesight #StrategicPlanning...
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Jan 7, 20142 min read
4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 1: Analysis
At the end of each year while many are setting New Year’s Resolutions I spend time thinking about much deeper issues. This past holiday...
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Dec 19, 20131 min read
4 Steps to Success in 2014
4 Steps to Organizational Success in 2014 | http://www.maximumchange.com #2014 #business #communication #Consulting #BusinessConsulting...
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Nov 13, 20131 min read
Welcome to the Meritocracy
——————– #hierarchies #PhilipAFoster #flat #Agile #open #opensource #innovation #Meritocracy #OpenOrganization #topdown #maximumchange
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Sep 27, 20131 min read
PRESS RELEASE: Philip A Foster Completes Doctorate in Strategic Leadership
Press Release Philip A Foster Completes Doctorate in Strategic Leadership Maximum Change, Inc., a leadership and business consulting...
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Aug 21, 20133 min read
3 Reasons Your Org Chart is Worthless
First – org charts represent a structure that bottle-necks decision making and limits agility. If you want to see where the problems are...
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Aug 16, 20132 min read
The Death of the Manager (the coming extinction)
I was recently involved in a dialogue with some business colleagues on the matter of who is responsible for the strategy and its...
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Aug 9, 20132 min read
Finding passion and your WHY in your story
Using my friend’s analogy, my story is layered like an onion. With each layer comes a complexity that makes me who I am. I will begin my...
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Jul 24, 20131 min read
From Massive Losses to 36% in Profit in Only 49-days
——————– #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #culturalassessment #Administration #culture #assessments #HR #management #Losses...
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Jul 22, 20131 min read
When Not Knowing Can Hurt Your Organization
We, as leaders, must understand that focusing on what is in front of us is only half the process of leading. We must be aware of the...
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Jul 20, 20132 min read
How Delivering Bad News Can Be A Good Thing.
Recently, I’ve been involved in the purchase of a new home. Because we are moving further into the country we decided to take advantage...
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Jul 5, 20132 min read
Organization 3.0 – Embracing Theory in the 21st Century
As a business consultant and professor I am often asked why study theories and systems that are no longer used in modern society. I look...
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Mar 28, 20137 min read
Workforce 2.0: The Strategic Alliance Workforce of the 21st Century.
2025 and Beyond As you walk into your home office, you set your Computer Anywhere Device (CAD) on your desk. The CAD, about the size of a...
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Dec 30, 20121 min read
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt....
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Nov 23, 20123 min read
Yes the economy stinks… now what are you going to do about it?
A recent FoxBusiness.com article summed it well “American small businesses have suffered enough in this current economy… Twenty-three...
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Nov 1, 20123 min read
The Decay of American Sovereignty through Globalization
Globalization is the phenomenon that polarizes people, alters the fabric of our lives and creates rifts within and between people (Harf...
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Oct 6, 20123 min read
Recession and the Aging Workforce
Global models are used to help reduce uncertainty by generating alternative scenarios against baseline forecasts (Hughes & Hillebrand,...
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Aug 9, 20123 min read
Real Networking… No Scam, No Strings Attached!
Unless you’ve been asleep under a rock for the past four years, you already know the economy has been terrible. Everyone is looking for...
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Aug 8, 20123 min read
The pregnant pause | Why I stopped calling myself a Life Coach
The phone rings… Hello, Maximum Change… how may I help you? Caller: Yes, I am looking for a life coach to help me get my life back in...
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