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Is Your Smartphone Killing Your Business?
Your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smartphone is a great device, enabling today’s business leader to constantly be in contact with the office and access the Internet or the cloud for needed information on the fly. Unfortunately, it is exactly this … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More
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The Lost Skill of Delegation
“You cannot do it all.” As business leaders, most of us have come to realize that we need to better delegate tasks so that we can get what is essential done. But, it is important to remember that the purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Perform / Execution
Tagged Business Leadership, Delegation, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Management, Winning Teamwork
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Get Out of the Office and Get Your Business Growing in 3 Days
With the weak economy and the grid-locked government, many business leaders feel stuck, frustrated and frozen in place. They know that their current strategy of downsizing, economizing and streamlining will not lead to long-term success. In fact, in a recent … Continue reading
The 4 Secrets to Great Business Leadership Already Known by the Ancients
Thousands of years ago, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, individuals like Socrates, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca aspired to lead virtuous lives by following the four ideals of: Wisdom Justice Self-Control Courage Today, these same four qualities still represent … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Leadership, Courage, Do the Right Thing, Justice, Self-Control, Wisdom
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Leadership Delusion: The 25 Lies Crappy Business Leaders Tell Themselves
The worst thing about bad business leaders is that they genuinely believe that they are doing excellent work. Yes, they may realize that their companies are not performing. But in their minds, it is not their leadership. It is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Business Decline, Business Leadership, Honesty
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The Most Seductive and Dangerous Mistake Smart Leaders Make
Business leaders are on the firing line, making it happen, and trying to realize ever more difficult goals. Far too often, for every one step forward, they take one, two or three steps backwards by making that most seductive and … Continue reading
Go Home!!! Work Fewer Hours and Get Better Results
Business leaders pride themselves on working hard, putting in the long hours required to achieve success. Paradoxically, the extra hours many of us put in may actually hinder our effectiveness and the performance of our companies. In short, working fewer … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Success
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More, Winning Teamwork, Work-Life Balance
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Team With Your Customers
A previous blog discussed the first two ways to turn your current satisfied customers into your biggest allies and best friends. Survey and satisfy these customers. Truly listen to them. The third way to develop customers as allies is to … Continue reading
Speed – A Key Element of Business Success
“The secret to success lies in careful preparation followed by speedy and decisive execution.” Napoleon In successfully executing on your business goals, speed matters. The quicker that you complete a task, the sooner you can get on to the next … Continue reading
Minimize Distractions for Better Results
In business today, the opportunity for distraction is endless. This includes all the distractions of the urgent but unimportant that range from meetings to E-Mail to Internet surfing. Due to these distractions and constant interruptions, employees and companies often do not … Continue reading
Why is Business Today So Complex?
Everything and everyone in business drive business leaders and businesses towards greater and greater complexity and more and more work. As Warren Buffett has said: There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More, Prioritization
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Introducing – Build a Better B2B Business
My book, Build a Better B2B Business: Winning Leadership for Your Business-to-Business Company, is now available for sale on Amazon.com (Click Here). The book offers a simple, focused, and practical approach to business leadership. Today, business and business leadership … Continue reading
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Tagged B2B, Business Leadership, Customer Service, Do the Right Thing, Management, Winning Teamwork
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How to Grow Your Business in Five Steps
Growth is a pre-requisite for business success. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, most companies need to grow just to stay in place. They need to expand market share, seek out related and new market opportunities, and constantly pursue new … Continue reading
9 Keys to Driving Cultural Change
After years of little growth, command and control management, and cost-cutting, the cultures of many organizations need rejuvenating and tweaking in order to thrive in today’s difficult and increasingly competitive business environment. But, changing culture is difficult. As Lou Gerstner, … Continue reading
3 Areas Where Consistency from the Business Leader is Critical
One of the keys to good leadership is to be consistent: Consistent focus on the few critical issues. Consistent mood, behavior, and decision-making so that your team knows where you are coming from. Consistent delivery, brand image and presence … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Leadership, Consistency, Customer Service, Do the Right Thing, Winning Teamwork
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Humility – A Leadership Attribute Throughout the Ages
One of the most difficult challenges for any leader is to remain humble in light of the success that the leader has achieved. Our business success inevitably leads to greater self-confidence, especially as we inevitably over-estimate our personal role … Continue reading
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