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# Tim McCarthy and the Business of Good

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## [Creativity Defined!](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/creativity-defined)

** May 31, 2017 9:44:12 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 How’s that for a bold headline? I’m a searcher so I accept that my definition may change again but here we go.

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## [What's Your Story?](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/whats-your-story)

** Apr 30, 2017 7:43:19 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 I come from a long line of story tellers.

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## [Bloom Where You’re Planted](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/bloom-youre-planted)

** Mar 30, 2017 11:05:52 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 Listening to our customers is a key to organizational success but listening too well can be dangerous.  I’ve learned to listen enough to tailor our strengths to address customer needs but not so well to become all things to all people.  It is a thick, not a fine line to me.

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## [The Head and The Heart](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/the-head-and-the-heart)

** Feb 28, 2017 12:30:54 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 Our website’s March article of the month features a wonderful story about a social enterprise named **First Book.**  Their organization provides tens of millions of books a year to the underserved by taking contributions from publishers and then charging modest shipping charges to send them on to qualified organizations.  First Book makes enough from modest shipping charges to keep the organization going and growing.

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## [Mastering Time](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/mastering-time)

** Feb 1, 2017 5:59:22 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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I asked the business owner who was lamenting the challenges of being an entrepreneur, "Who decides what you do in a day?".  He answered, "me, of course". 

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## ["Life Changers; Never Forever" by Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/life-changers-never-forever-by-tim-mccarthy)

** Nov 29, 2016 6:19:00 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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Raising Canes of Ohio (our partnerships restaurant company) is approaching 1,000 employees. At that size, I find it cool that our son, Timmy, its founder still does many exit and stay interviews with its crew members and managers. 

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## [Charitable Business and the Business of Charity](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/charitable-business-and-the-business-of-charity)

** Oct 31, 2016 6:25:00 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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All business is social. 

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## ["IQ, EQ and... LQ?" by Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/iq-eq-and-lq-by-tim-mccarthy)

** Oct 2, 2016 7:12:00 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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 I’ve never knowingly had my IQ tested but I’m pretty sure they did it in grade school because my teachers constantly told me that my grades were far below what my intelligence tests predicted. I was apparently a slacker before the word was coined.

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## [Newsletter - "The Message is the Medium" by Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/newsletter-the-message-is-the-medium-by-tim-mccarthy)

** Aug 29, 2016 9:45:00 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant professor who coined the phrase “the medium is the message”.  

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## [Guest Blog "SEA Change" by Tim P. McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/guest-blog-sea-change-by-tim-p-mccarthy)

** Aug 1, 2016 7:19:00 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Monthly Newsletter](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/monthly-newsletter)

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A SEA Change is a profound or notable transformation. The SEA Change happening in Columbus, Ohio will be showcased in the form of a festival. There will be two back-to-back days focused on the raising up of Social Businesses into the consciousness of Ohio.

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