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Is Agora TRANSFORM right for you?   Improving your business, defining, and reaching your business (and personal) goals is what we do here at Agora. All business owners and top-level managers have struggles or challenges, and successful ones identify them and get help overcoming them. Agora TRANSFORM is a one-day per month business class for about 13 months. It used a scripture-based curriculum developed by the nation’s top business owners …

Written By Strategic Advisor Kevin Lemasters Whether you plan to sell your business or not, you should always have your business prepared to sell.  We are not promised tomorrow.  If you have a family and they are not involved in the business, having things in order ensures they are taken care of as your business is in a place to bring the value you want.  It doesn’t matter if your …

It was announced in the local northern business press recently that a Northern Colorado beer company “will discontinue distribution of its beers to grocery stores and lay off more than 40 percent of its staff as part of a larger business downsizing. In a statement to BizWest, the brewery blamed severe competition from other craft breweries…” Wow! Can you imagine, competition in the craft beer industry!! My comment is a …

Written By: Kevin Brownlee, Strategic Advisor Do you, or an employee seem disillusioned?  Has the excitement, drive, and fervor left your job? Is it hard to keep good employees? If so, it could be because one of the three needed elements of job satisfaction and effective productivity are missing. It takes three main ingredients to make beer: barley, hops, and water.  If one of those are missing, and you take a …