How do you get great at something? What does it take to achieve mastery with a critical skill in your life? In the last blog, we talked about motivation and how it might have changed. Today, I hope to take your life to the next level. Earlier this week we…
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How Nonprofits Can Empower Their Stakeholders Through Social Media!
Want to know what you stakeholders are thinking without investing thousands of dollars for focus interviews? How do you find out what your best stakeholders are interested in? When I did business intelligence in the 1990’s, my clients invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to find out key information on…
Continue Reading....What’s Your Biggest Risk in Life and Business?
Serving leaders take many risks in the pursuit of a larger purpose. Why do so few accomplish what they want in life? I think it’s because they don’t risk being all they can be. They spend their lives trying to be someone they are not. Risk takes many forms. Let…
Continue Reading....How Do You Expand Your Vision of the World?
How do you take your vision to a higher level? What do you need from a coach if you hope to begin connecting the dots and seeing the bigger picture? Over the past 20 years, I’ve helped my clients develop their intuition and show them connect the dots. This becomes…
Continue Reading....What Will Serving Leadership Look Like in Year 2020?
So what does the next generation of business leadership look like? Who will be the big winners in the connected global economy? I’m always asked what qualities I should be developing in our future leaders. As I work with clients on development, succession, and exit plans, the more I’m struck by…
Continue Reading....Why Building Trust is Critical to Global Serving Leaders
Last week we talked about how building trust can help grow your business internationally. I attended The Trust Conference last week from London and promised you a report on what I learned. I thought I’d share several key ideas I learned from the people and presenters at the conference. I think they…
Continue Reading....How Do You Build a Winning Growth Strategy?
What’s the winning formula for building a great business? Why do so many businesses get to a certain size and stop growing? Early in my career, I had several INC 500 Clients go from being good high performing small businesses to becoming successful billion dollar organizations. Why did others stall…
Continue Reading....Your Most Valuable Asset is Something You Don’t Own
Workers walked out at seventy Market Basket supermarkets in June. Today, they are going back to work on their own terms. The majority shareholders have agreed to sell their stake in Market Basket to the once-and-future CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas. That was the workers’ sole demand. Why did Market Basket…
Continue Reading....What Serving Leaders Need to Know about Depression
Robin Williams’ tragic passing this week has reminded us that we must be always aware of how others are doing. As serving leaders, we work with many different people who may be dealing with depression. Depression is one of the major risk factors for suicide. There are over 16 million…
Continue Reading....What Makes You an Employer of Choice?
How do you build an extraordinary organization? How do you attract the right people to your team and grow a winning organization? Earlier this week, I talked about building a great culture and several keys to building a breakthrough organization. Today, I share what I’ve learned from many successful entrepreneurs…
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