How do you define a life-threatening situation? Is it when someone pulls a knife on you? Or when someone has taken your future away by taking your savings? Most people consider a life threatening situation one where you’re facing immediate death. What about when you don’t have the financial resources…
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Are You More Or Less Effective Than You Were A Year Ago?
There is a ‘secret key’ to peak personal productivity and performance that entrepreneurs are unwittingly depriving themselves of, to a worsening extent from one year to the next. This subtle form of self-sabotage takes its toll many different ways. Entrepreneurs and sales professionals need ‘resiliency.’ We face opposition, we experience…
Continue Reading....The Qualities of Skillful Leadership
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great…
Continue Reading....A Little Equation that Creates Big Results
The purpose of man is in action not thought – Thomas Carlyle Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am,…
Continue Reading....A New Beginning
Have you ever wondered how things always work out for some people and don’t work out in others? I’m celebrating my 50th birthday this week. Reaching this milestone has me looking back at past successes and failures to determine which direction to take the second half of my life. I’ve…
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....What You Need to Know about Your Best Partners.
One of the most rewarding partnerships you can create is with a non-profit organization that can use your skills to enhance and expand their reach in the community. Most non-profits are eager to work with those that bring business skills and knowledge to their groups. Study after study has shown…
Continue Reading....The Time to Act
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either. Here’s the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong. Let’s say 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.…
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