2.22.2012

Hoping Your Way To Better Results.

Every successful business idea starts with hope. Getting results over the long term requires more than an intellectual creativity for coming up with new ideas. It demands emotional attachment. You can cut employees. You can trim budgets and eliminate redundancies.


2.21.2012

The Right Age To Be Amazing.

At 1, Christian Friedrich Heinecken, the legendary child prodigy had read the Pentateuch. At 2, speed skater Bonnie Blair began skating. She should go on to win five Olympic gold medals. At 3, Wolfgang Mozart, taught himself to play the


2.20.2012

Anger Isn’t A Strategy.

Not getting along isn’t a winning strategy for long-term success.  You just end up looking like a fool. While it’s only human that you have an opinion, forcing your opinion on everyone else all the time just isn’t a winning


2.17.2012

One is Enough.

It only takes one to start a trend. It only starts one to get people thinking. It only takes one to make a difference. One thought. One moment. One person. “Who shall set a limit to the influence of a


2.16.2012

11 Game-Changing Companies Who (Successfully) Broke The Rules.

There are rules and guidelines that limit what is possible to achieve.  Rules that we all somehow agree to. Rules about the cost of doing business. About profit, loss, and reinvestment.  Rules about possibilities. Rules dictated by shear elemental constraint.


2.15.2012

9 (Uncomfortable) Steps to Changing Any Conversation.

Any time you try to change a conversation you’re going to get pushed back. When you try to change the topic some of those around you will try to push the conversation back to where it already was. That’s where


2.14.2012

Refusing To Lose Quietly.

You don’t have to go down quietly. You don’t have to throw up your hands, hang your head, and admit defeat. It is a choice. Both giving up and fighting on. They are just choices. And it’s your choice today.


2.13.2012

How To Get Places.

The only step that matters is the next one. Where you were before is just history. Where you end up is a result of where your next step takes you. It is all too easy to let complex business problems


2.10.2012

What Doesn’t Need To Be Said.

Just because it is true doesn’t mean it needs to be said. Sometimes kindness is a better strategy. You can discount tolerance as being weak, but maybe it’s just you giving those around you the chance you want desperately for yourself. And that’s not


2.9.2012

Re-Feeding Your Addiction.

It might be hard to admit but addiction plays a significant role in all the decisions that you make each day. Your addiction decides for you whether you relentlessly pursue bold ideas of whether you give in to how your


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