Business Keys To Success: Control

Control can be a good thing and it can be a bad thing.  For most people, the first thing they think of is that if I am in control that’s good and if someone else is then it is not. Over years in my personal business coaching practice I have observed while collaborating with and Read More

Business Keys To Success: Focus And Leadership

What does it take to have the focus required to be an truly effective leader?  The keys are priorities and concentration.  A leader who knows his priorities but lacks concentration knows what to do but never gets it done. Very often, in my personal business coaching practice the self-employed business owner, entrepreneur, solo professional, corporate Read More

Business Keys To Success: Priorities

John Maxwell in “The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership” talks about the law of priorities.  Priorities are easy to talk about.  But, very often there is a disconnect between our priorities and what we do. Whether you are a self-employed business owner, entrepreneur, solo professional, corporate manager or executive we naturally believe that when we Read More

Business Keys To Success: You Must Quit To Succeed

One of the interesting paradoxes is that we are raised with the thought that there is something inherently bad or wrong about us when we choose to quit.  Yet, if we don’t quit the thoughts, emotions, ways of thinking and ways of doing things that are holding us back, there is no Read More

Business Keys To Success: Are You Able To Quit?

I am challenging you to quit.  Do you have the skill or discipline to know when to quit?  In my personal business coaching practice I have observed that very often the greatest success among the self-employed business owner, entrepreneur, solo professional or corporate manager or executive comes when they decide to quit. In the previous Read More

Business Keys To Success: Master The Art Of Quitting

I believe that quitting is a good thing.  In fact, many of the best things in my business and life have come from quitting.  In my personal business coaching practice I collaborate with and support successful people.  Interestingly, the one thing that all of them are seeking is to Read More

Business Keys To Success: Change Is Inevitable-Growth Is Optional

I know everyone reading this post has experienced change.  Yet change doesn’t mean growth.  I thought I was growing because Read More

Business Keys To Success: The Power of Focus

As a young boy growing up in Chappaqua, New York I learned about the power of focus.  Unfortunately, I was learning how to use the power of focus this bright fall day but I didn’t have the wisdom to use it properly. I was always intrigued by my Dad’s magnifying glass.  My Dad wasn’t home Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leadership Is Empowerment

Over the years my best leaders whether it be in business, sports or volunteer organizations are the ones who practice empowerment.  Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. And, even with all the online training, corporate training, business courses and business skills training developing great leadership that leads to the empowerment of others is not Read More

Business Keys To Success: Leadership

There are many definitions of leadership.  One that has stuck with me is that leadership is creating in others today a future willingness to follow you into something new for the sake of something great.  I believe that to be true. But let’s look for a moment of the misconceptions about leadership. Leadership? The one Read More