I’ve spent many years sharing my thinking on goal setting with my clients and my students. For many of these people, they have seen amazing results once they set down their goals to paper. My friend and early mentor Brian Tracy says, “Success is goals and all else is commentary.…
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Why Character Still Counts
Last week Zig Ziglar passed away at 86 years old. He was an incredible leader who walked his talk until the very end. Last week in this blog we talked about the seven traits of a serving leader. The foundational and final quality of a serving leader was cultivates character.…
Continue Reading....How to Take Your Leadership to the Next Level
Last week we posted the first half of the article by Brian Tracy on Leading and Motivating. Here’s the conclusion. The third quality is courage. It is the chief distinguishing characteristic of the true leader. It is almost always visible in the leader’s words and actions. It is absolutely indispensable…
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It’s been said, “Leadership is not what you do, but who you are.” This, however, is only partially true. Leadership is very much who you are, but it cannot be divorced from what you do. Who you are represents the inner person, and what you do represents the outer person.…
Continue Reading....Five Tips For Creating Successful Habits
Fully 95% of everything you accomplish, or fail to accomplish, will be determined by your habits, either good or bad. Successful people have good habits that guide and direct them to ever greater success. Unsuccessful people have bad habits that trip them up throughout their lives. Here are five things that…
Continue Reading....Gaining Visibility
Have you noticed that some workers receive more promotions and greater pay than do their colleagues? This, despite the fact that they are apparently not even as competent. This doesn’t seem fair. Why should some people get ahead when others who seem to be working far harder, and even longer…
Continue Reading....How to Take Smart Risks
One of the best of all exercises, in every situation involving uncertainty, is to assess and evaluate the worst possible outcome. Ask yourself, “What could possibly go wrong in this situation?” Remember Murphy’s Law: “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” There are several secondary laws to Murphy’s Law, such…
Continue Reading....Taking Smart Risks
All of life is a risk of some kind. Whenever you engage in any action where the outcome is uncertain, for any reason, you are taking a risk. You take a small risk when you drive to work or walk across the street. You take a larger risk when you…
Continue Reading....How to Get the Best Results From Your Team
There are basically five qualities of the most productive work teams that you need to foster throughout the stages of team development. The degree to which you accomplish this before you start working will determine your success as a team leader and the success of the team as a whole.…
Continue Reading....The Role of a Leader
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals…
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