Many businesses are comfortable. Ahhhh… it is so nice being in the comfort zone – the metaphorical easy chair in front of a warm fireplace, feet up, and relaxed. The company is doing fine, business is good; management, customers and staff are happy… and complacent.
There have been numerous comments made about “aligning†corporate departments, sales and marketing strategies, and ‘le sujet du jour’. It seems everyone wants to compartmentalize the alignment process thereby making it easier and faster to accomplish. Translated, do it the quick and easy way! The result, there is little success or just plain failure.
Leadership has taken on new meaning and greater challenges in the last decades. Influencing is a critical skill that must be mastered simply because we work with a multitude of people. Often times, the people that we work with may have different goals and agendas and in order to establish meaningful win-win outcomes, you...
You’ve been there. You are introduced to someone you have never met before. You and the other person go through the social niceties, talk about the weather, the prospects for the athletic team of choice, fashions, even “back in my day†but invariably the subject comes up, “What do you do for a living?â€...
1) Daily Reflection – Reflection is a powerful and effective tool for developing yourself. We often get lost in the day-to-day shuffle and forget to take inventory of our own accomplishments and opportunities for improvement. As the CEO of your career, you must put a plan in place that will allow you to become...
How often have you had to endure the ordeal of being served by a grump? It’s the wrong person in the wrong job. It makes one wonder how that person got hired for that job, who trained them, and whether the company really cares about having happy customers. We’ve all heard people exclaim clichés...
In conversation recently, a businessperson asked me whether there was a “rule of thumb†for setting the price for her products. My answer was, “Yes, but that’s just the starting point and I feel that using “rule of thumb†for business decisions, especially pricing decisions, means you haven’t created a business strategy.â€
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Most small business owners have a “one-time hit†attitude about their relationship with past and existing joint venture partners. This wrong approach means they expect to just carry out one project with their joint venture partner, and move on to another new partner for the next project.
1) Daily Reflection – Reflection is a powerful and effective tool for developing yourself. We often get lost in the day-to-day shuffle and forget to take inventory of our own accomplishments and opportunities for improvement. As the CEO of your career, you must put a plan in place that will allow you to become...
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