Successful Business Performance: It’s About Raising Your Standards

Successful business performance and how it is tied to raising your standards was the focus of a client meeting I had at the beginning of the year. He was looking for 2010 to be a breakout year. Things were going well. The marketing of his company was producing very positive results. His forays into advertising Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leader-A Larger Field of View

Leader-The Larger Context A leader has a larger field of view. John Maxwell in The 360-Degree Leader shares the following thoughts. Most people evaluate events in their lives according to how they will be personally affected. Leaders think within a broader context. They start by asking themselves, How this will impact those they lead? They Read More

Intelligent Action

People often ask how they can make better decisions? How can they make better choices? The answer is to make the future part of your current philosophy. With a picture of the future you desire both personally and professionally you will now be guided to make better decisions in the present. When faced with a Read More

Master The Small Disciplines

Are you mastering the small disciplines in your business and life? It is the small disciplines that lead to great accomplishments. Success is about accumulation. The accumulation of many small disciplines performed well leads to great accomplishment. The next time you let something go that needs to be done with the attitude that “it really Read More

Failure

What is failure? It is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day. They get repeated because people don’t think it matters. When you hear about a business closing down it appears to be one big event. It is a big event for that day but the reality is that what caused Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leadership

One of my favorite quotations on leadership states, “Leadership isn’t taught.  It is caught.”  I can assure you that in my career as a self-employed business owner and as a personal business coach that there are several people who served me well as excellent role models of leadership. In fact today, when I am Read More

Business Keys To Success: Your Daily Attitude

One of the great discoveries of my life was that I truly do have control over my attitude.  I used to play competitive tennis in high school and college.  At one time, especially in high school, I was considered to be a very good tennis player.  A High School Attitude When I was in high Read More

Business Keys To Success: Self-Discipline

The road to success and ultimately more happiness is paved with self-discipline. Author H. Jackson Brown Jr. said, “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” If you know you have talent, and you’ve seen a Read More

Business Keys To Success: Your Team And The Revolving Door

In any team sport, the key to sustained success is managing the revolving door of players. Players come and players go. In business it is the same. If you are leading a team, you are responsible for making sure that the revolving door is geared toward bringing in players who are better than those that Read More