Performance
July 2, 2020
Alex is a difficult employee. Increasingly argumentative lately, insisting on only one way of doing things, and claiming to be right without having the full picture. Talking behind the backs of others, blaming, sometimes name-calling, and generally b...
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June 22, 2020
Confidence is everything. When JFK announced in May 1961 that the US would go to the moon within ten years, he exuded confidence. And the nation rallied to make it happen. When Churchill said, “… we shall never surrender!” he betrayed no lack o...
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June 9, 2020
Are you looking to increase sales success for yourself or your team? Consider focusing on self-confidence. It can be key to helping a customer believe in you and your ability to solve their problems. Even if you have the best product, goals, and ...
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June 1, 2020
“I wish I would have done that better.”
“I wish I would have handled that differently.”
“I wish I was more confident in my choices.”
How often have you heard someone, perhaps even yourself, utter these sentiments?
We are human...
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May 4, 2020
Over the last few months we have all played a role in the worldwide, high-stakes exercise of physical distancing, working from home, and social isolation… whether we liked it or not. But unlike traditional experiments, this one came with limited gu...
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April 27, 2020
We are on a journey that is not much different from the one undertaken by early explorers who set sail seeking passage to China. The pilot had very basic tools – the compass, astrolabe, quadrant and hourglass. There were no maps, radar, weather rep...
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April 20, 2020
Exceptional results often have their genesis in little decisions and small actions. Suppose that five years ago you had decided to prepare your business for sale, starting the ball rolling by meeting with your professional advisors. That initial deci...
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April 14, 2020
Slight edge thinking is important to a successful business strategy.
Strategy starts with big ideas that are distilled to smaller actions, which with time, discipline, and focus can generate big results.
At the strategy development stage, it is imp...
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April 6, 2020
Keep doing what you’ve always done and you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. We know this, and yet it can be challenging to make any changes to improve what we get. Perhaps we have a mindset that change must be big, overwhelming, and difficul...
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April 1, 2020
It can seem daunting to become an effective leader. You may think that to create an impact you need to work extraordinarily hard, “fake it till you make it,” or become a different person altogether. The reality is that we all have innate leadersh...
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