Two Must-Do Guidelines and Five Clichés to Avoid.

Your strategic review is a rare opportunity to take an objective overview perspective on your business. It is a time for questioning assumptions and a space in which to encourage creativity and involvement. It is not a place for rigid thinking or hackneyed business phrases. In the ideal business world, all meetings should accomplish one or more of four things. They should 1) Generate new ideas to add value. 2) Share...

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Nature or nurture? It's what you believe that counts.

Delegation, when we don't do it right, is a frustrating business. We discover down the road that things never turn out as we thought they would. We find ourselves looking at deadlines in the rearview mirror. It drives us crazy and reinforces the conviction that "if it has to be done right, then there is only one person to do it."

But BEWARE! Therein is the vicious circular road to burnout. Because the busier you are, the...

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The "Zone of Leadership" explained

What are YOU really good at? What are you passionate about? We are talking here about knowing yourself, knowing what's really important to you, what you do very well, and what you love to spend your precious time at.

Here are 3 excellent tools to help understand your personal zone of leadership.

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Customers, Prospects, and Referrals: A treasure map toward profitable growth

Get your top team together with our free download CPR spreadsheet in front of you. Use it like a treasure map toward profitable growth. As always, we recommend a systematic approach to this vital business process. The 4-step process described in last month's newsletter is a customized tool within our "IMPROVEment cycle" (available as a white paper titled "Thriving in a Matrix World"). 

The CPR...

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It's all about the CPR!

Putting our CPR spreadsheet at the heart of your sales and marketing process will keep your business focused on the highest value prospecting activities. But the acronym is not the one a Google search would give you. Rather, it means Customers, Prospects, and Referral partners. It is a means to focus on a strategic view of your most important prospecting activities.

These are the most important people for any business, and this sheet is a summary of...

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