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: 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: 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: 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: Lead By Giving Others Energy

Mark Twain once said, “If you want energy go out and give it to someone else.”  Over the years I have been fortunate to lead not only businesses but several volunteer organizations.  The ones where we had the greatest success is where all of us were creating energy. Yet, many self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs, solo Read More

Business Keys To Success: Embrace Commitment

The world has never seen a great leader in the world or in business who has lacked commitment.  If you want to be an effective leader, you have to be committed.  Why?  True commitment will attract Read More

Business Keys To Success: When To Make Decisions

Very often we make decisions without even thinking about the context in which we are making them.  This can lead to some bad consequences.  Are things going well?  Are they going badly?  Are you under a lot of stress?  Remember there is Read More