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Business Lesson from the Baseball Diamond
Do your actions include or exclude team members? A lesson from the Texas Rangers. We can all learn a lot from the Texas Rangers baseball team—not from their actions on the field, but from their actions...
View ArticleBusiness Coaching Results
Douglas Environmental My business has changed! In the seven months that make up 2012 year to date we have exceeded 2011 totals sales by 205%. In fact in the month of July alone are revenues are 95%...
View ArticleWho Answers the $50,000 Call in Your Business?
What impression is the staff of your business leaving on your new and existing clients? Think of the money you invest in your business and all the hard work you and your staff go through just to make...
View ArticleBusiness Success: Eight Fundamentals
Business is full of mysteries, but none is greater than this: What are the elements that contribute to a company’s success? Executives have spent 100 years guessing about what makes a company...
View ArticleWho said that?
Who said: ‘Work Smarter…Not Harder’? This phrase has been attributed to Allan F. Mogensen, the creator of ‘Work Simplification’. And what is Work Simplification, you ask: “the organized use of common...
View ArticleAre you still learning?
What you learn after you know everything will have the greatest impact… Are you still learning?
View ArticleBusiness: The $20,000 Phone Call
Business: The $20,000 phone call When a business receives a phone call, who answers? When a new prospect or customer arrives at your business, how are they treated? Your marketing has finally paid...
View ArticleWhat are you Measuring in Your Business
What are you measuring in your business? According to Peter Drucker, and the experience of all my clients, “what gets measured, gets managed”. If you are not achieving the results you want in your...
View Article10 Elements of a World-Class Company
The 10 Elements of a World-class Company Highly successful organizations have certain definable qualities in common. These universal distinguishing characteristics separate good companies from great...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Business Writing Twice as Good
You can double the power of your business communications simply by stating your primary message earlier. When business writing is bad, it’s usually: Complicated Confusing Vague Unconvincing A...
View ArticleThe Art of Delegating
In today’s busy world, one of the best ways to create more time for top-priority projects is to delegate lower-priority work to someone else. Many people are reluctant or afraid to delegate work. Do...
View ArticleTen Reasons People Resist Change
Leadership involves introducing change, but what is a leader to do when faced with ubiquitous resistance? Resistance to change manifests itself in many ways, from foot-dragging and inertia to petty...
View ArticleDon’t Think Outside the Box – Redefine It!
Thinking “outside the box” is a popular idea in the business world today. People and organizations are told to think outside the box to stimulate creativity when they need to solve problems, streamline...
View ArticleCOACHING — Not just for GOLF!
Attention Business Owners: COACHING It’s Not just for GOLF! Let’s talk about the development of your golf game. Your game has likely improved over time through the advice of others: the buddies at...
View ArticleInvesting Time on the Right Tasks
Adoxography was a term coined in the late 19th century. It refers to highly skilled writing about trivial subjects. In effect, it’s wasting great skills and ability on things that don’t matter. And yet...
View ArticleAre you working hard or just working long hours?
Hard vs: Long Work As the long days of summer become the shorter days of Autumn, how are you spending your time? Are you working hard or just working long hours? Long work is done by the lawyer who...
View ArticleUncomfortable Conversations
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” ― Timothy Ferriss Who is making you uncomfortable? Who looks you in the...
View ArticleWhy are owls so wise?
In Greek mythology, Goddess Athena used an owl as her emblem. With its focused, silent gaze, the owl gives the appearance of deep thought and knowledge. Actually… The owl’s brain is quite small,...
View ArticleRoots
How important are your roots? At the Watson Lake Sign Post Forest in Canada’s Yukon Territory you can see over 70,000 hometown signs planted by people from all over the world! Business Lesson to be...
View ArticleExercise wisely…
Did you know that, relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue? Business Lesson to be Learned: Always exercise good judgement when giving this muscle a workout!
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