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: 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

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: 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