How do you identify potential opportunities for professional and personal growth? As entrepreneurs, we get many opportunities to become better serving leaders. How do you make sure you get involved in the right projects that help you leverage the time you invest? When I was young, I was lucky enough…
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No B. S. Leadership Advice for New Entrepreneurs
How does a new entrepreneur determine who to listen to when growing a small business? How do you get the right advice at the right time? I had a chance to spend some time with Dan S. Kennedy this weekend at a book signing for his newest book Win, Place, or Die,…
Continue Reading....How Do You Reach for the Top Again?
How do you decide what you want in life? I find many of my clients are facing changes they couldn’t imagine in their careers. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what they are involved in, many are going through major life transitions. Some are as young as 30…
Continue Reading....Four Questions to Hiring Better Sales Professionals
Have you ever wondered why some sales professionals are more successful than others? What does it take to excel in today’s challenging sales environment? Depending on your business, a sales professional can cost your organization between $150,000 and $1,000,000 to hire, bring onboard and start producing. With these high costs,…
Continue Reading....The Courage to Stand Alone
How do you develop the courage to stand alone? Its critical for serving leaders not to be caught up in the daily challenges that their organizations’ face. Serving leaders today are confronted by a number of problems as we continue to help our organizations grow and prosper. It is comfortable…
Continue Reading....Are You John Galt?
How do you know when your society’s in trouble? My wife gave me a copy of the Journals of Ayn Rand to help celebrate the release of the second half of Atlas Shrugged in the movie theatres. As a person who loves good writing and enjoys knowing how people think,…
Continue Reading....How to Become the Master of Your Beliefs
Now that you’ve identified your beliefs, what does it mean to your life? Learning your beliefs and those of your fellow team members can make you unstoppable as a leader. If you take time to better understand yourself you’re on the way to being a top 5% leader, choose to…
Continue Reading....Does Your Nonprofit Know Its Strengths?
In the last blog we talked about the market forces that are impacting your nonprofit organization today. Serving Leaders face challenges today that were not even thought about five years ago. The rate of change has accelerated and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down in the foreseeable…
Continue Reading....Sentenced to Success
I once heard a speaker use the statement, “I have been sentenced to success!” I heard that almost twenty years ago, yet it still sticks in my head. Imagine that. What if we had been given a life sentence to serve, say 75 years, and the sentence was to do…
Continue Reading....Being Part of the Team
Being Part of the Team In high school I had the good fortune of having very demanding and knowledgeable football coaches. Our head coach’s name was Jim Haluska. He was one of the premier coaches in the state of Wisconsin. As I look back on my time with him I…
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