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

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

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: 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