We all know about making New Year’s Resolutions at the beginning of the year. Some of us even do it thinking that this will be the year those resolutions will magically turn into personal commitments we actually honor over time…
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Stop-Start-Continue Your Way to Success in 2016
Posted in Albert Einstein, Bert Lance, Commitment, Goals, habit, insanity, Intentions, New Year's Resolution, Personal commitment, Resolutions, Stop-Start-Continue, strategic intention, success Tagged with: goal, habit, Motivation, new year, resolution, results
Essentials of Change Management: Five Critical Steps for Greater Project Success
Today’s organizations experience tremendous amounts of change. Whether these changes are prompted by the implementation of emerging technologies, the redesign of major business processes, or even the realization of a new corporate vision, they can, under the right circumstances, be…
Posted in Change, Change management, Communication, Implementation, Innovation, Large-scale change, Leader, Leadership, Lessons, Lessons Learned, organizational change, productivity, success, Transition, Transition Management Tagged with: change strategies, implementaiton, Leadership, leadership change, organizational change
Do You Suffer from “Excessive Success”?
Sounds like a good problem to have, right? You’re actually probably reading this thinking to yourself, “How can you be too successful at anything?” Well, it may be a better problem to be excessively successful than to be failing miserably.…
Posted in Competition, Copycat, Customer Attraction, Future, Ideal Future, Jack Welch, Leadership, Leadership Teams, Positive Role Model, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning Retreat, success, Target Market, Vistage Tagged with: competition, copycat, customer attraction, future, ideal future, Jack Welch, Leadership, leadership teams, positive role model, strategic planning, strategic planning retreat, success, target market, Vistage
Eight Points on What It Takes To Be CEO Straight from a Successful CEO!
One of my key lessons learned about being a CEO and small business owner comes from Chris Gardner, author of the book and subject of the Will Smith movie “Pursuit of Happyness”. In a reception of Inc award winners a…
Three Simple Steps to Declaring It – and Making It – Your Best Year Ever!
Happy New Year! Was 2013 a great year for you? Maybe not so much. Either way, are you ready to make 2014 your best year ever? As my good friend used to tell his four-year-old son, “It’s good to want.”…
Focusing on the How in Succession Management, Not the Who!
I support a lot of individual business leaders and owners who are quickly turning their attention to their “third acts” in life. In every one of these situations – whether it’s the third-generation business leader maintaining the family’s traditions for…
Tell Them Once and Never Have to Tell Them Again!
I am fortunate to have an uber-perfectionist named Jessica by my side. She is incredibly responsible, completely reliable, and in general just a wonderful person to work with. At times, I forget that Jessica strives for perfection in all that…
Posted in Communication, Delegation, Direction, employee engagement, Intentions, Leadership, Management, Motivation, success, Vistage
Celebrating Our Successes – One Accomplishment at a Time!
Did you just sign a new customer you’ve been chasing for 2 years? Find the simple billing errors that explain why your numbers are off so much this year – simply because you forgot to bill your clients? Those accomplishments…
Aim High, Achieve Higher
Different things speak to different people. For me, sometimes it’s the lyrics in a song that move me to tears. Sometimes, it’s the message on a billboard or even the common theme of a popular TV show or classic movie…
Swimming Upstream to Unparalleled Levels of Success!
The life of an Alaskan salmon is an interesting one to say the least! These adventurous fish are born as little eggs in gravel nests at the bottom of Alaskan streams and river beds. They then hatch and grow and…
Posted in Alaska, Alaskan Salmon, Circle of Life, Evolution, Innovation, Motivation, Salmon, success, Swimming, transformation
