How Blue is Your Ocean?
There’s a lot of competition out there, and the majority of businesses are fighting it out in a sea of competitors to try to get their piece of the action. That’s a shame. Our battle-worn and once glorious blue ocean has turned red. All those little fish struggling for air and trying to grab […]
How to Find Your Life’ s Purpose Without Losing Your Head
What’s your purpose in life? Have you figured it out yet? It’s an important subject. Most people spend a good portion of their lives thinking about it. Thousands upon thousands of self-help books have been published on the question, each claiming to have the answer. We want to know. We’ve read them all. […]
Wayne Dyer: A Miraculous Life
Wayne Dyer once said “I’m a realist. I believe in miracles,” and his life was proof, that when you believe in yourself, miraculous things can and do happen. As a child, growing up in Detroit orphanages and foster homes, the odds were not in his favor. But he overcame them, with an intrinsic belief […]
6 Steps That Will Help You Achieve Your Goals
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Zig Ziglar You have a vision. You know what your world would look like when you achieve it. It’s out there waiting for you. All that good stuff. Maybe some of you have picked […]
Don’t Forget the Soft Side of Strategy
“Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.” – Peter Drucker Strategy is often a ‘catch-all’ term and it comes […]
The Secret to Happiness
27 Famous People Share Their Thoughts “My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” – Charles Schulz The general consensus is that babies are born happy. Why shouldn’t they be? When they’re not, they […]
How Do You Price Your Value?
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffet This has been a good year; but although business has picked up, and many especially in services industries are busier than ever, they’re not significantly profiting from their efforts. One factor that could significantly influence that is the way you […]
What My History Teacher Said About Potential and Permission
When I was in high school some time during the last century, my history teacher was late for class. Rowdy teenagers that we were, we seized it as a golden opportunity to goof off. While the girls were jabbering and laughing away some of the boys (not me of course), took the globe out of […]
Inspiration from Simon Sinek: “Start With Why”
It should come as no surprise that I’m a big fan on Simon Sinek. In fact, I’ve done presentations based on his ‘golden circle of human emotion,’ which explains the greatest motivation behind why people buy. Simply put, he proves that people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. […]
Expecting Good
Tom Hopkins is a well-respected leader in the field sales training and executive consulting. In fact, he’s been doing it for close to 40 years. He’s written a lot of books on the subject too, all valid and insightful regardless of endeavor. My favorite quote of his is a very simple, yet opens up […]