Leadership Crisis – How A Crisis In Leadership Can Ruin Your Business
Todays businesses are experiencing a worrying lack leadership, not only to lead current businesses forward into growth and expansion but to mentor, support and encourage leadership with in the business for the future. Managers will continue to just manage if they do not have positive role models to learn from and aspire to be.
Strategic Leadership – How Leadership Can Grow Your Business
Succession planning is very important to the long-term success of any company. Leadership transitions in business affect the entire organization’s continuity, employee retention, client retention and returns on investment.
What’s Your Excuse?
Let’s say there is something you really want to do. It can be something big or something small. The key point is it is something you’ve been saying you want to do for a period of time but haven’t gotten around to doing it. It’s a pattern. To the point that you flow right into your list of excuses without even thinking about it. Don’t let excuses stop you from living your best life. Learn how to bust out of them by reading more…
Unreasonable Requests
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
It is probably the number two task of leadership — asking. You ask people to do things, and when they do — well, stuff happens.
But what really extends your ability to make big things happen is asking for things that are “unreasonable.”
Wha…
Five Steps To Stop Procrastinating And Achieve Your Goals Today
The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. Vincent T. Foss
Susan Daley was a successful entrepreneur selling promotional products. She enjoyed making decent money while having the flexibility to work at home. Susan recently took over a colleague’s account, a huge growth opportunity. So why did she spend her mornings playing solitaire in her messy office rather than making phone calls to prospects?
To procrastinate is “to put o…
Your Voice Print
When you leave a voicemail message for someone, it is your “voiceprint.”
Strategy As Invention
Rather than view strategy as a selection of options, here is another approach: creation or invention.
Strategic planning is not strategy
Strategic Planning, often synonymous with Annual Planning, details how you are going to get where you have decided to go. It is a description of how you will achieve your goals — those milestones you established in structuring your business plan. Strategic Planning is operational in nature, it examines the particular actions you inte…
How To Be A Simply Irresistible Salesperson!
Ever notice how some people have a certain energy about them that naturally attracts success. What is their magic secret? Who you are personally shows up in your sales approach. It’s a big mistake to think that you can fool people when you are not coming for the right place. It’s the subtle subconscious clues that you send your prospect that can make or break your sale.
Let’s face it – People buy from people they trust. People trust people who are like them. The more you b…
Why Predict The Future?
Do you ever try to predict the future? Are you usually right, or wrong? If so, then read on.
Can you predict the future of your industry? Can you predict the future of your business? No one can say with certainty what will happen next week much less one year from now. And five years? Not a chance.
Yogi Berra reportedly said, “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.”
Everyone agrees. Predicting the future is hard. It is so hard that a fifty percen…