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Three Lessons on Business Change from Learning the Piano
Five years ago, I attended a leadership training class that ended with each participant giving a passionate speech about how they would do something new and different in their lives. My first two speeches stayed under 100 decibels and thus … Continue reading
Posted in Improve / Turnaround
Tagged Business Leadership, Business Transformation, Change, Cultural Change
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Embrace the “Antithesis” for Better Decisions
As business leaders, our organizations depend on us to make the best decisions for the success of our businesses. The challenge, of course, is that most of these decisions need to be made without complete information and with conflicting facts … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Success
Tagged Antithesis, Business Leadership, Decision Making, Devil's Advocate, Problem Solving
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The Bedrock of Your Winning Business – Ethics and Integrity
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But, rather we have those because we have acted rightly.” — Aristotle The times are tough. The pressure on you and all your employees is intense. You have employees … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Ethics, Integrity
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8 Steps to Satisfy Your Current Customers and Re-Charge Growth
In a previous blog, Things to Start Doing Today to Re-charge Growth, I described the first stage in re-charging growth: The business leader needs to … Get personally involved in sales, marketing and customer service on a daily basis Talk … Continue reading
The “Art” of Building an Organization – Guest Blog by Mark Herbert
In my series of blogs, I have been writing repeatedly about the how’s and why’s of building a winning business. The essential ingredient to a winning business is having the right mix of people with the same shared vision. My … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Team / People
Tagged Business Leadership, Employee Engagement, Mark Herbert, Winning Teamwork
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Employee Engagement (and Motivation)
A “Winning Business” is built by having talented, well-trained and engaged employees. To that end, multi-billion dollar industries exist to help companies find the right talent and to teach, train, coach, and develop employees and managers. Unfortunately, less time and … Continue reading
How to Be 10X More Effective in Your Life (Well, Almost): The 4- Hour Workweek and Effectiveness Management
Tim Ferriss wrote a best-seller, The Four Hour Workweek. The premise of the book is that it is possible to improve your effectiveness and use the Internet and Social Media tools to create a lifestyle where you work only four … Continue reading
Less is More (Jason Jennings)
Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity as a Competitive Tool in Business (Jason Jennings) Focus on the Simple Big Objective Keep everything simple and clear – including strategy The focus is determined by the leader in a defining … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Perform / Execution
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Jason Jennings, Less is More
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Communicate the Vision… Teach the Vision
As a successful leader, you must … Define and communicate the values and vision for your company Align the company and all employees towards your values and vision Engage and then develop the employees to act in accordance with … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Employee Engagement, Teaching, Values, Vision, Winning Teamwork
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Are You Being Honest? Are You Really Being Honest?
The first fundamental of a Winning Business is to “Do the Right Thing.” The first fundamental of doing the right thing is to be ethical. That is, to have integrity and honesty. I leave to a later blog my … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Candor, Do the Right Thing, Face Reality, Honesty, Integrity
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More Quotes on “Do the Right Thing”
As you may recall, I consider “Do the Right Thing” to be the first of the three keys for a Winning Business. Do the Right Thing is defined as: Ethics, Integrity and Character Do the Right Thing to Ensure the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Perform / Execution
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Integrity, Quotes
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Do You Return Phone Calls?
“Your call is very important to me. Please leave your message, and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you.” Welcome to the biggest lie in business!! Unfortunately, most people in business are not … Continue reading
The Sweetness Of Doing Nothing
Ahhh, summertime! The time to take a vacation: to get away from the office; to relax; to spend time with the family and enjoy the important things in life. Alas, it appears that yet again most business leaders will … Continue reading
Leadership and the One Minute Manager (Kenneth Blanchard)
Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Kenneth Blanchard In leadership, don’t work harder; work smarter Lao-Tzu: “When the best leader’s work is done, the people say: ‘we did it ourselves.’” Management requires different strokes for different folks There … Continue reading
Better B2B Branding
In B2C (Business to Consumer), the brand is and has long been a vital component of all sales and marketing efforts. The Nike Swoosh™, the Coke brand, and the Apple brand are literally worth billions of dollars each to their … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Sales and Marketing
Tagged B2B, Brand, Business Leadership, Made to Stick, Manage to the Brand
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How the Mighty Fall (Jim Collins)
How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In: Jim Collins Summary For companies, there are Five Stages of Decline Hubris (excessive pride) born of success When “we are successful because we do these specific things” replaces the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Business Decline, Business Leadership, How the Mighty Fall, Packard's Law
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The Management Myth (Matthew Stewart)
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong: Matthew Stewart In this book, the author, Matthew Stewart, interlaces accounts of his life as a consultant with a critique of current consultant and management thought. His overall view is … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Competitive Advantage, Consultant, Pareto 80 - 20, The Management Myth
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The Magic of Three – The “Windex” of a Winning Business
Throughout my blog posts, you will notice that I construct lots of lists in explaining and clarifying certain points. You may also note that most of these lists have three points. In doing this, I am using a technique … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Perform / Execution
Tagged Communication, Focus, Make It Happen, Priritization
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Switch (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard: Chip Heath and Dan Heath This is an excellent book, which I recommend that you read. My notes are reasonably short and only give a flavor of what is discussed. Filled … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Improve / Turnaround
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