Those who can’t manage themselves can’t be expected to manage anything else either.
Suzanne Evans So you decided to seize your dream and start your own business. Unfortunately, your fledgling company is losing altitude fast. Despite putting in the work, you’re not seeing the profits. No matter how much you scour profit-and-loss statements, analyze your data, tweak your advertising, encourage your employees, or suck up to potential clients, […]
By D. Luke Iorio, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP, President & CEO at iPEC The majority of leadership articles focus on what you can do to better lead, impact, and influence others. However, leading others isn’t possible unless you’re, first, leading yourself. Those around you follow your lead, right? At least that’s the intention. You want your
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Dr. Judith Orloff, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Are you addicted to power? Many leaders are, and it gets in the way of their personal and professional progress. Here’s a mini-profile of a power-addicted leader. He feels he can control everything–and if he can’t, he’s going to try anyway. He believes he can “make things
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In more than thirty-five years of consulting, I have found that, at the upper echelons of large organizations, natural intelligence differentiates the successful leader from the “also ran.” While you’ll hear debates about the roles of emotional intelligence, vision, and the ability to motivate others, brainpower trumps all. Three main components define what I call
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The emotion-based approach to preparing a speech is a novel idea in verbal communications. It considers a speech as an emotional journey for the speaker and his audience. The focus on emotions helps speakers prepare memorable speeches and impact their audience. How would you prepare a speech for a dinner gala? Let’s follow the steps
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Ted Gorski, President, Get Your Edge, LLC In today’s corporate world, leaders need excellent communication skills. Many are being asked to do more with fewer resources while also dealing with the stresses of a corporation that is downsizing and/or tightening budgets. To remain effective, leaders need near perfect communication skills regardless of their own communication
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Gary Douglas When I first started out in business, I didn’t have any money – not anything! I was struggling. I was TRYING to create money. I was TRYING to be successful. Not succeeding; just trying. I had always been of the opinion that “someday I’ll get” or “someday I’ll have” and then I came
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The beginning of the year is an excellent time to assess your goals and to ensure you are on the right path to achieving them. If you continually seem to not be able to meet a particular goal, something needs to change. However, it might not be what you think. Recently I was having lunch
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Jeremy Kingsley Some people like to take stock every year on their birthday. For others, it’s the start of the school year in the fall. For most of us, though, it’s the end of the calendar year that prompts us to look back at what we have-or haven’t-accomplished and set goals for the year ahead.
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Daniel K. Walker, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Farmers & Merchants Bank Keeping your word. Seems like such a simple statement, a statement that could very well form the foundation of every person’s daily creed. But it doesn’t. We all know many people who make promises but don’t keep them . . . People who
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