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Get Into YOUR Leadership Zone
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...
CPR Part 2: Customers Prospects and Referrals
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...
Guidelines for Managing Remote Working…
...especially for first-time remote workers There is so much to think about when adapting your business to this new COVID-19 world. Ideally, remote working should be planned for and trained in, but urgent quarantine of our employees precludes this. Even with...
Leadership – Start with Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Action
The first step in business (or life in general for that matter) is to identify what it is you want and Why you want it. Why do you do the things you do? What are you passionate about? Is it selling products or having a positive impact on your clients? I think you will...
CPR Tool, the Strategic Business Tracker
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,...
Business Growth Is All in the Mind
Nature or nurture? It’s what you believe that counts. Are we born smart or do we achieve smartness? Well, both actually… IF you believe you can develop smarts, you will. It’s a mental model that Carol Dweck calls a “growth mindset.” But IF you believe your IQ is...
4 Keys to Unlock Your Super Personal Productivity
I've discovered 4 keys to freeing up my super productive self. I've been reading "Rework" by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. It is a reassuring call to action. We all behave and think irrationally at times. Like drug addicts or overweight couch potatoes, we...
What’s All This Blockchain Stuff About?
Trust in Yourself! When the likes of Facebook and Starbucks are getting into blockchain technology, you just know it’s time to at least give it some thought. For 40 years now, we have had a love-hate relationship with the Internet. Try to imagine all the information...
To Buy or Ally? That is the Question!
Here are some worrisome statistics from The Journal of Finance: On average, companies that take over others have a 10% reduction in wealth over five years post-acquisition. And up to 55% of all alliances fall flat with losses accruing to both firms. It seems that too...
Are You a Truly Effective Business Leader?
Self-development towards executive effectiveness must be learned and practiced. How often and how well do you practice the following habits? We define habits as the synergy of knowledge, experience, skill, and motivation. Take time to reflect on each item in the PBC...
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