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Category Archives: Small Business Leadership Advice
Undercover Boss is Bad for Business and The Secret Millionaire is Bad for Society
My friend, Terry Starbucker, a leadership expert, wrote a compelling post entitled, The Trouble With Undercover Boss (If Your’e a Boss), where he makes the case that the CBS show is bad for bosses because a great CEO would be …
Moving On From Ideas That Aren’t Working (AKA: Innovation)
Yesterday I wrote about being intimidated by your own ides. It sparked such an intense and meaningful conversation about innovation and change that I thought I’d continue the discussion today.
So, what is innovation? Innovation is a simple act. …
Shared Ambition (Do You Have It?)
To succeed, you need to be ambitious, to cultivate ongoing ambition.
To succeed, you also need people around you who support your ambition, who nurture your inner strength, and who cultivate and maintain curiosity as well.
Staff, partners, family, friends, …
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Tagged ambition, collaboration, curiosity, family, friends, future, Golden Rule, partners, Platinum Rule, staff, strength, Success
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The Future Belongs to the Leader
At the end of the month, I’m speaking at an event called SOBcon founded by Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker. The focus of this year’s conference is leadership. Scores of leadership experts, including Steve Farber and Lisa Petrilli, will be …
Posted in Small Business Leadership Advice
Tagged business growth, Choice, commitment, hiring, inspiring, leader, leadership, leadership conference, SOBcon
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Give Up, Give In, Get Going (Before it’s Too Late)
If I am your coach or advisor, you may resist some of the suggestions or options I offer you. If I encourage you to change your plan, change your tactics, or more importantly, change your thinking, you may rebel.
You …
Close Your Mouth (You’ll Get More Done)
Yesterday, while working with clients in one of my programs, I got on my soapbox about dealing with life on life’s terms. They were grumbling about a deadline being a week earlier than they expected. So, instead of 12 …
10 Questions You Must Ask When Hiring Assistants and Outsourcing Projects
Collaborating with others creates scale in your business by increasing your leverage. To collaborate effectively you need to:
- Isolate activities that generate more income than they cost to have others do.
- Identify where to place your energy and focus according
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Making History: The American Dream
I believe you can change the future, regardless of our history, if you’re not a prisoner of the past.
In a way, it’s how people think about the classic American Dream—a person who comes from an unlikely background making it …
He Walked Through My Front Door Holding a Gun
Thankfully, it was a dream. A very bad dream. A nightmare really. I can still see it with impecable detail. I was in my kitchen, which wasn’t actually my kitchen, as is typical in dreams, and I saw a short …
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Tagged 9mm, breakdown, business, dreams, fears, gun control, gun rights, guns, instincts, nightmare, principles, reactions, rebellion, strategic vision, thoughts
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