Life & Health
May 1, 2019
Trust is a key element of effective leadership and honesty is essential to build that trust.
If you were asked to rate yourself on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is extremely honest, what score would you give yourself?
What elements of honesty make ...
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December 17, 2018
Making succession fun? That’s a little like trying to convince you that going to the dentist will be fun. Necessary, prudent, sensible and probably life enhancing... but can it actually be fun?
Yes. Here are five ways to ensure your succession p...
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December 14, 2018
Brad Hams, author of Ownership Thinking determined there were three important conditions that must be in place for organizations to be successful:
They care
They have fun
There are visible, high expectations of performance
Our Focus art...
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December 3, 2018
Many believe that work and fun shouldn’t go together. Let’s dispel that myth: because when sleeping, commuting, cooking, cleaning, eating and other necessary daily activities are excluded, it is estimated that we spend 50 percent or more of the r...
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August 9, 2017
Our thoughts and our bodies are inextricably connected. In his classic, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill shares his secret to success: “We become what we think about.” These six words inspired me to believe that if I could control what I though...
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August 2, 2017
“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assumi...
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July 11, 2017
Does your strategy for improving sales results include journaling, meditation, and reflection?
These activities help us to observe, understand, and connect with our emotions. Greater self-awareness can increase our emotional intelligence (EI), and...
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July 5, 2017
It is a sad story: Mary was a friendly, experienced individual who accepted a six-month contract in an established business. During this period coworkers would help, but never without her reaching out first, and not once was she invited to join the g...
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June 27, 2017
In his book, Every Family’s Business, Thomas Deans encourages business owners to prioritize preserving the family wealth over preserving the family business. If it makes more sense to sell the business outside the family and put the money to more p...
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June 6, 2017
I am often amazed when I facilitate group exercises about values by the number of participants who either do not believe that values support relationships or, when asked, admit that they do not live those values. These values include:
Collaborat...
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