Every book that describes the secrets of personal success has a list containing 3-5 or ten keys, things you must do if you want to be successful. I am sure I have not read them all, but I have read enough of them to realize the truth. No one really knows what it takes to be successful or there would only be one book with a single list.
You can either add my little list to the one you already...
Everywhere you look everyone is say thing that they know the keys to success. Dig deeply in what they say and it all turns out to equal the same thing. It all comes down to the way you decide to spend your time. Are your actions taking you closer to or further away from your intended future?
What will your future look like? It will either be the result of the actions you take today or the...
If you had a time machine would you use it to see what the future will bring or to go back and do the important things you didn\'t do when you had the chance? Your success in life, your happiness, your health and your prospects for success will be largely determined by what you choose to do with your time.
Needless to say, you\'ll never have enough time to do everything that you want to or...
Do your clients trust you explicitly or do they often say, \"We\'ll have to think it over\" when you propose a solution or plan of action? Do your prospects trust you the very first time they meet you, or do you often hear \"We want to check with some other...\" before they are willing to commit to engaging your services?
Today everybody has a professional looking web site with important...
Why does a dependable supervisor begin calling in sick, when you know they are not really ill, just before an important project is due for completion? Why is a valuable team leader always in a bad mood, snapping at her colleagues, coming in late, and leaving early - all of a sudden and for no reason at all? Why do you find yourself making decisions solely to keep the peace - to keep from...
Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage you\'ll ever have that will endure against all others. Are you then an effective, 21st Century leader? What would your people say about your leadership? Would they say that your leadership is the one key element that insures their long term success? And how much of your energy is being spent helping your subordinates become effective...
Decades of statistics illustrate that most successful businesses ultimately fail. In fact only 35% of successful family businesses (and virtually all small businesses are family owned) survive through the second generation, and of those only 20% survive through the third.
The reasons are typically straightforward and the excuses have been the same, from my personal experience, for over a...
If you are a the owner of a small business it\'s not hard to imagine yourself all alone in a tiny boat, rowing steadily across a calm lake. Everything seems fine - and yet you keep looking over your shoulder, when you know you should be focusing on the future, wondering if there is something you haven\'t thought of.
Things seem to be going smoothly - but there\'s a dark shadow in the water...
Most coaches I've met and whose web sites I've visited seem to be of the "coaches who coach coaches so that they can coach coaches" variety. No one seems to be coaching regular traditional mainstream businesses. Most coaches just seem to be coaching each other.
Those coaches who say they coach people who are not coaches all seem to have references from clients at Fortune 500 companies...
About three thousand years ago a group of Chinese business owners were sitting around after their local businessman's group meeting. Their guest speaker that day was a very ancient and widely respected management consultant. It had been raining for days and the roads were a mess, so the ox cart that was picking him up to take him to the next village was running late.
That gave the business...
