Life & Health
December 19, 2019
Business succession can be a stressful process.
While some stress can be positive in the short-term, chronic negative stress leads to burnout and irreparable damage to our bodies. You will want to take steps to avoid and minimize the impact of d...
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December 6, 2019
Nothing happens until somebody sells something.
That famous quote has been attributed to Peter Drucker, Thomas Watson and Red Motley among others; and it is so true. Whether you love or hate sales, business doesn’t exist without it.
We are all ...
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November 4, 2019
We hear a lot about culture: hiring for culture fit; how culture can help accommodate five generations in the workplace; or the five types of corporate culture….in fact, when I Googled “corporate culture” I got almost 1.5 billion links!
That...
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October 18, 2019
What will you do after you transition away from your business? That’s the big question for many entrepreneurs. For most employed individuals, who have ‘normal’ work lives, the answer is easier: outside of work, they have sports, hobbies, family...
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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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