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How is Your 100-Year Business Plan Coming Along?
Succession Planning with 3 Key Leadership Skills So, you had the idea for your business. You believed in yourself and had the strength of mind to set it up and keep it running through the busts and booms. But in the back of your mind, you know the day will come when...
Who are the ‘Influencers’ Who Spread the Word of Mouth Marketing?
Want a great idea for cultivating excitement in your business and planting the seed of an unprecedented sales BLOOM? Sure you do… The very old idea with an ultra-modern twist, I suggest is, ‘word of mouth’ product promotion. Focusing your marketing efforts and dollars...
Is Your Organization Healthy as well as Smart?
5 Tell-Tale Symptoms of an Unhealthy Organization 1. Assumption-Based Leadership. You, as leaders of your organizations, ASSUME that you have more top-team cohesion and clarity around your Vision and purpose than you actually have. Sure you’ve got the organization...
Strengths-Based Leadership
Everyone is naturally loaded with a wide range of skills at which they naturally excel. These abilities, despite being second nature, can also be developed. In fact, “…people have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their...
Leadership is a Choice – What Do You Choose?
A great threat to our businesses, culture, economy, and way of life is the significant lack of leadership that permeates our society. Yet, the solution to this significant problem is very simple. We need to create (or re-create) a leadership culture. The solution may...
Many and More Tips for Personal Productivity!
Personal productivity is something that can ALWAYS be improved. It’s always changing too, as our goals and ideas change. Be your most productive self using the top personal productivity tips below: Be realistic and say ‘NO’! I know this tip is on everybody’s list of...
Unusual ‘Business as Usual’ – 4 Lenses of Innovation
Our world is facing a tsunami of change. As business leaders, you have the option of riding the wave of change on a surfboard of innovation and creativity. Or, you can bask on ‘comfort zone’ beach as usual and wait to be swamped. Because contrary to popular belief,...
Wealth Creation Demands Focus and Determination
Personal productivity is a daily choice. For all of us, there are two sorts of tasks to do: Steve McClatchy calls them ‘move toward gain’ tasks and ‘prevent pain’ tasks. I call them ‘wealth-creators’ and ‘chores.’ Chores are everyday tasks like getting your car...
Thriving in a Matrix World
Your role is ‘Champion of Continuous Improvement’… When you recognize that your business is a key part of the global economic matrix, you can grow and develop along with it, by working matrix style, as and when needed. Matrix organizations came about in the 60’s in...
DELEGATION: Like a Journey in 4 Stages
When you delegate effectively you take your enterprise with you. Out of the wilderness of work overload (for you, but under-load and disengagement for others) and into the promised land of productivity… Your own, AND the rest of your team’s. It’s an epic, virtuous...
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