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Study This Game and Improve Your Business Performance
Business: Entrepreneurialism • Published: January 9, 2012
I love football. It is a game about strategy, offense, defense, all kinds of numbers and measurements, and generally for those people that relate to sports analogies: it is the perfect sport. Let's consider some of the aspects in a typical professional season and how it can impact on your business's performance.
Give 'Em the Chair
Business: Entrepreneurialism • Published: September 22, 2011
Here's a great technique for all managers, supervisors, and anyone who has to confront a subordinate for inappropriate or less than a superlative performance. I call it "Giving 'em the chair." It works like this.
Catching Monkeys in Business
Business: Change Management • Published: September 21, 2011
Catching Monkeys is a relatively easy thing to do if you know how. There are many similarities to the way people run their businesses and and the results can be equally fatal both for the monkey and the business.
How Do You Spell CHANGE?
Business: Strategic Planning • Published: August 16, 2011
Making changes is difficult in most organizations. Wouldn't it be great if there was a simple formula, a map to show you how to do it. Well, there is and it is called Gleicher's Formula where DxVxF>R. This article will will be explained and we will decifer what these values mean and how apllying the formula can lead to lasting changes in your company.
Business Essentials in the 21st Century
Business: Entrepreneurialism • Published: July 15, 2011
With rare exception, one of the essentials of any successful marketing and sales program today is a powerful presence on the internet and a good website. You simply cannot expect to be perceived as credible if you don't take this fundamental step.
Making Powerful Choices
Self Improvement: Coaching • Published: January 11, 2011
The most important thing one can do to ensure an optimum return on ones life is to make powerful and discerning choices. The article uses the backdrop of a familiar "12 Step Prayer" and a somewhat irreverent theatrical reference to make its point.
A Business Coach/Consultant Is a Change Merchant
Self Improvement: Coaching • Published: December 13, 2010
Change is difficult in life and business. Most will not reach out for help until they are in a pain. When does change occur? Is there a mathematical formula for change?
Mastering the Elevator Speech: The Key to Focusing and Your Success in Business
Business: Consulting • Published: December 7, 2010
These days people talk a lot about so called "elevator speeches." This article speaks to why a good one can be one of the most powerful changes you make in your marketing plan and why a good one is so important.
Introducing the "I Factor"
Self Improvement: Coaching • Published: December 2, 2010
Introducing the "I" Factor We have all heard the tired old saw that "there is no I in team." Well let me challenge this by adding a corollary for your consideration. "There is an "I" in IMPACT.
The Hail Mary
Business: Entrepreneurialism • Published: February 2, 2010
The Hail Mary Pass is the most exciting play in football. It is the high risk, go for it all, nothing to lose scenario that gets everyone on their feet at the stadium. It may not be the best play for you in life or business.
Market to Market
Business: Marketing • Published: February 1, 2010
In many respects, in business, some say, it's all about the marketing. I remember years ago the pork producers of America launched a campaign to "market" pork as "the other white meat."
Let's Shake on It
Business: Workplace Communication • Published: November 17, 2009
How many business meetings have started and concluded with people shaking hands? How many deals have ended or never happened because of an inept or offensive "shake?" How many opportunities do each of us get on a regular basis at networking events, parties and other social gatherings, to capitalize on what has almost become a meaningless gesture? The answer is, probably more than we will ever know or want to know.
The Tao of Business Coaching
Self Improvement: Coaching • Published: November 12, 2009
The Tao (pronounced Dow as in Dow Jones) of Coaching Taking care of your business can be a great stress reducer and contribute to your overall state of health. One of the things that I and several hundred million Chinese people and countless Americans do each day is an exercise call T'ai Chi. For the uninitiated, it is those slow graceful, ballet-like moves that one usually sees older folks doing in parks and on beaches.
