I recently had an interesting call with an executive at a large insurance agency. I’m working on a project that requires me to help train agencies and accounting firms about leveraging strategic partnerships to grow their organizations.
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Entrepreneurs, Are You Leveraging 10,000 Strong?
What’s the biggest hard trend impacting your organizations today? One hard trend seems to have snuck up on many of my clients and partners’ teams. It’s what I call 10,000 strong! I think it may be vanity. Or maybe most great leaders are optimists. Or maybe it’s both/and.
Continue Reading....Should Your Sales Leader Become a Sales Coach?
How do you get the best results out of your sales organization? Are you working longer days and weeks? Are your sales management efforts getting less sales results than in the past? Should your next sales leader be a sales coach?
Continue Reading....How Can We Secure the Future of IoT Security?
What’s the biggest challenge to your IoT future? I’ll be at IBM InterConnect next week. As always when I go to these events, I reach out to clients to discover what they want to know about what I’m working on. This year, almost all my discussions in information technology revolve around help…
Continue Reading....What do you want to learn at IBM InterConnect 2017?
Next week is IBM’s InterConnect Conference is Las Vegas. I will be attending the conference as an IoT Futurist. It gives me a great chance to get a better handle on how changing technology impacts my clients’ businesses in the coming year. I always enjoy spending time at these conferences…
Continue Reading....How to Find Great A Players for Your Growing Team!
How do you find great A Players for your team? The number one challenge facing leaders today is how they find great talent for their growing organizations. I’ve spent the past 25 years helping clients recruit and retain A Players.
Continue Reading....Can Charlie Munger Help You Grow Your Business?
If you want to succeed in growing a great organization, you need several advantages to keep growing at over twenty percent per year for many, many years. How do we find a person whose strengths complement yours? Warren Buffett’s secret weapon and his close friend and business partner is Charlie…
Continue Reading....How Would Hulk Smash Big Data?
Hulk, the biggest, strongest, and greenest superhero, is tasked with helping entrepreneurs get the most out of the Big Data revolution. We caught him between battles and talked about the coming challenge of Big Data and how it’s changing the way the world works. Lucky for us he had changed…
Continue Reading....Who’s the Most Interesting Investor in Silicon Valley?
How would you like to be the most influential person in one of the most interesting parts of the world? What would you do with your influence? How would you use your unique strengths to influence the world for the better? Who do you think is the most influential person…
Continue Reading....Does Your Investing Makes the World Go Round?
We talked about spotting and investing in the next big idea earlier this week. I got several calls from friends and colleagues who liked the blog, but asked me if I really thought this was all I needed to pick the next big thing. They asked me specifically if a person…
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