I’ve been involved in mergers and acquisitions for the past 25 years. I’m always asked how my clients and businesses decide who to buy. Why do they choose to buy certain businesses and pass on others? Sitting in a conference on Succession Planning for Private Businesses last week reminded me…
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What Today’s Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Washington
George Washington led our country well over 220 years ago. How would he deal with the challenges facing purpose driven entrepreneurs today? What can we learn from this revolutionary leader? The first lesson George Washington might teach us is that it’s better to dodge a bullet than take one. As…
Continue Reading....How Do You Hire Your Next Sales Superstar?
How do you hire the right sales professional? This is the most popular question I get asked by business leaders. Over 70% of all business leaders believe they have hired the wrong sales professional in their career as a leader. Hiring the right sales professional can make a huge difference…
Continue Reading....How to Build a Great Team
Many of the best companies I work with are growing very quickly. The biggest challenge for them is how to hire the right people to work well within their current business culture while continuing to grow as their organization does. I’ve worked with ten organizations that have grown from a…
Continue Reading....Let’s Start Our Future Today
We have several celebrations going on today in the United States. We are celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and leadership. We are also watching President Obama’s second Presidential Inauguration. For us in this country, we take for granted the peaceful transfer of power for our presidents and government.…
Continue Reading....Create a Great Leadership Team Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. such a powerful serving leader? Can we use the same principles he used to help impact our world today? During the 1980’s, I was given an opportunity to interview his wife and several of his closest associates about what they felt about the…
Continue Reading....Three Leadership Lessons from General Norman Schwarzkopf
When I was invited to work with the military after 9/11, the first person I called was my father. He had spent many years in the military and he understood the task ahead of me far better than I did. My exposure to the military came from history books and…
Continue Reading....One Life With A Simple Message
What will you do with your time here? This week we celebrate the birth of a man who did more in three years than all of us will do in a lifetime. I challenge you to take time to reflect and decide what you’re going to do to make a…
Continue Reading....My Prescription to Avoid Future Tragedies
What can we learn from the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut? Who can we hold responsible for the senseless tragedies that shock our nation and the world to its very core? For many who have children, it’s a reminder of the horror that could happen to our own children. It would…
Continue Reading....Are You a Revolutionary Leader?
How does new leadership take your business to the next level? How do you lead in times of uncertainty? What skills are required to take your organization to the next level? How do you begin developing a stronger, more agile organization? These questions were at the beginning of a series…
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