I have a fairly consistent routine each day. I get up, workout, have breakfast and start working. My daily schedule might vary from meetings to desk work, but there are elements that are consistent. Everyone does it. They fall into routines and it becomes easy to do...
February is Passion Month. Doesn’t that work out well? Passion and I have a love-hate relationship with each other. How’s that for mixing metaphors right off the bat? For most of us, Passion is akin to love. We’re passionate about people, things, ideas, stuff. I’m...
What is commoditization? I like to use cell phone companies because I seem to always get bombarded with their commercials at every turn. Their advertising is all about their latest offer. Each of them claims to have the best “deal.” It’s all about money and the race...
Competition. We’re all afraid of it to some degree. We try to be magnanimous and think, “There’s enough business for everyone.” That’s true, but we all have some of those niggling little doubts that someone is stealing business from us. Because it’s a competitive...
Today’s world moves fast and is full of noise. In fact, the argument can be made that we live in a world of distraction. Remember Dug, the lovable pup from Disney’s Up? Squirrel! He was easily shiny-marbled. People are easily shiny marbled. If you don’t grab their...
Leadership brings responsibility. Responsible leaders have every intention of getting things done, but sometimes fall into the pit of boring. Being focused on the intangibles and forgetting about the people they are supposed to be leading. In another life, I worked...
My son is in a Personal Leadership class at college. He has some pre-work before the semester started, one of which was that he had to take a StrengthsFinder assessment. He was mildly irked that he had to pay for and take the assessment for class. I confess I was a...
January is Get Organized Month. We hit the new year and part of turning over usually means a frenzy of goal setting and getting organized. Some of us (raising my hand high) thrive on organization. I love it. I love planning out the big picture. Mapping out a process...
It’s no secret that your people are the foundation of your business success. Your company can’t survive and thrive without your employees. So don’t forget employee training. In Ryan Jenkins’ article in Inc., his #5 trend for 2016 is Training...
It’s that time that I start seeing people post about what they’ve chosen as their 2016 word of the year. I’m so not into the whole “word of the year” movement. But 2015 was terrible in so many ways and I’m ready to close the door on...
