Leadership development & business development tools

ShareYou’ve probably heard the phrase, “People do business with people they know, like and trust”.  It makes sense.  When we’re comfortable with people, we’re more willing to hang around them and more willing to fork over money to them believing they ‘get’ us and can help us.
The challenge arises when we get and stay too [...]

ShareA few years back, I read Michael E. Gerber’s book, The E-Myth Revisited . Perhaps you have already devoured and incorporated the concepts he’s articulated. If not, let me share and reflect on a few of the ideas he postulates. One of the admonitions he makes is to “work on your business not in it” [...]

ShareSome executives think it’s best to keep things ‘close to the vest’.  They believe their employees can’t handle the truth.  They believe their own knowledge is sufficient to carry the day.
Those executives are flushing the intellectual capital of their company down the drain.
Employees know more than their bosses give them credit for.
Working, by Studs Terkel, [...]

ShareA lot of us have dreams.  Some are more palpable than others.  Some are more likely to happen, but that all depends on you.
Here are the key elements for delivering on your dreams.
1. Clarity
You have to know who YOU are.  You have to know what your dreams are.  This may require some quiet time with [...]

ShareWhat do you think procrastination is costing you?  What great ideas have you not acted on?  What dreams are languishing in your heart?
We procrastinate out of fear.  We dread some imagined future in which a horrible result occurs.  In reality though, things rarely turn out as badly [...]