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Growth & Strategy in 2014

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu A recent Mindshop survey asked business leaders around the world to pick what they thought was a likely theme for their organization in 2014. The most common response was “Growth”. Based … Read more

Leading With a Challenge

“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” – Umberto Eco I recently finished reading an interesting book called The Challenger Sale, by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. I’m not big on reading book reviews disguised as blogs, so I’m not going to spend 1000 words talking about the book. I’ll just … Read more

What Should Leaders Do?

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the most challenging aspects of leadership is managing to stay focused on things that really matter. So much of what we run into every day is really not that … Read more

Think Big

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” – David Joseph Schwartz Last week’s post was about attitude. I’ve been reminded of the power of attitude & belief again over the past week, albeit from a slightly different angle. I was visiting with a somewhat successful business owner about … Read more

Leaders and Attitude

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou We’ve talked about the idea of locus of control in this space before, and the idea that as leaders we don’t have enough time or energy to waste either on things we can’t control. Reading … Read more

Take Time For Yourself

I’ll be out most of the next two weeks celebrating the holidays. There’ll be a new blog post the first full week of January. In the meantime, take time for yourself. We all figure out ways to make our lives busy and complicated, especially during the holiday season. This year, be simple. Take a few … Read more

What’s Your Destination?

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu I had an interesting conversation with someone recently about leaders and exit strategies. The main idea of the discussion was that, unfortunately, many leaders have no idea what their organizations might look like without them. What’s worse, many … Read more

Just Lead Already

“A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.” – George Patton Four different conversations I’ve had in the past two weeks reminded me of the quote above. There are a lot of leaders out there who just can’t quite pull the trigger on something because they think some piece of … Read more

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