Karen Kimsey-House, CEO, Coaches Training Institute Organizational leaders tend to believe that people will trust them more if they are always certain and clear with ready solutions for difficult problems. In reality, the opposite is true. When the courage to risk failure and the transparency of owning mistakes is balanced with a clear commitment to […]
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Every business leader is looking for the breakthrough solution or secret strategy that will launch their organization to the top. But what these people sometimes fail to realize is that the greatest innovation can be the leadership they display. The most crucial strategy a business can enact is the one that determines how people lead
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Kim Staflund is the founder and publisher at Polished Publishing Group In my role as a book publisher and sales coach for authors, I’ve learned that the top fear of introverted entrepreneurs is fear itself. And it comes in the form of self-doubt. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve sat and had a
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Are you confused by all the changes in the Affordable Care Act? Are you tired of trying to navigate the complexities of buying health insurance coverage for employees? Have you seen an increase in premiums? If you, like me, are a typical small business owner you probably answered yes to all of the above. We
“People say I am indecisive, but I am not so sure about that.” I have seen this quote attributed to a former US President, but I doubt he actually said this. First, it is too humorous a comment for him and, second, he is far from indecisive. The liberal pundits trying to attribute that quote
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Alexi Venneri, Co-founder & CEO, Digital Air Strike I think some people and companies are automatically resistant to even considering spouses working together, but I was fortunate in that I had already worked with my husband at two prior companies over the course of our 13 year marriage. We are somewhat unique in that we
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John Dowling A vision without value is a pipe dream. Let’s examine some real life success stories as examples of what value has meant to these successful visionary ideas. Starbucks Opening a coffee shop in the United States and then franchising it 30 years ago seemed like a vision conceived by looking out of your
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Robbie Bach, Author, Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal When I am introduced as Microsoft’s original Chief Xbox Officer (or CXO), I get all kinds of reactions ranging from “Wow, what a great opportunity” to “Can I have your autograph for my son?” The Xbox saga was a challenging journey in
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Last month Syracuse University decided to pull its “kiss cam” after fan Steve Port wrote to complain that the common staple at sports venues “sends the wrong message at a time when colleges are fighting against sexual assault.” He claims he was just “out to raise an important issue.” That’s all it took, one
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Mike Weinberg, Best-Selling Author, Top Sales Influencer I learned the lesson during my first stint in consulting that you don’t transform organizations from the bottom! As a former top-producing sales hunter and expert sales technician, I mistakenly believed that if I trained and coached individual producers using the New Sales Driver framework (highlighted in my
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