Shannon Waller Would you like to have a Self-Managing Company? Even though I haven’t said what a “Self-Managing Company” is, I bet you can picture what that would mean for you—and you want one! As a business leader, you took the risks of starting a company, building the organization, and working out how to create […]
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30 million presentations are given every day. 90% are unbearable. Included in these numbers are countless CEO presentations. CEO’s speak to their Board, Bank, and other CEO’s. Sometimes they even speak to their employees in companywide meetings. How does an otherwise dynamic CEO become boring as a speaker? Keith Dambrot, says it this way, “the worst
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Geoffrey Tumlin Five Unrealistic Expectations We Have of Our “Smart”phones and Other Devices (and How to Get Back to Reality) Advertisements promise that the latest smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets will put blazing speed at our fingertips, enable us to multitask like an octopus, and ensure that we never miss a thing. Because new
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Kelly Walsh The never-ending struggle of reconciling a professional life with, well, any other kind of life, is often considered as a question of balance. How do I balance personal relationships and professional ambitions? How can I juggle the demands of my job and my family? Amid all this talk of balancing and juggling, I’d
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Lindsey Carnett The elevator pitch can be used as your secret weapon to push your sales efforts to new levels. At Marketing Maven, we used our elevator pitch to step into the direct response industry, a $300 billion industry through educating each person we came in contact with. More than a description of your company,
My first two cars were Orange and Brown. Not great colors for a car, but great colors for a Cleveland Browns fan. My first real purchase when I started working was two Browns season tickets. I was both an official Browns Supporter and an unofficial Browns supporter who really was at the 4th longest NFL
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“So, What Do YOU Do?” As a professional speaker and communication consultant, I have been asked for years by nervous entrepreneurs and professionals headed to networking meetings and live events about the best way to put together an “elevator speech.” And for years I have been telling those same people why they should not have
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Beverly D. Flaxington I often remind my coaching clients that the reason most companies have a pyramid structure is that not many people are cut out for leading the charge. Unfortunately, very often a person who is politically connected, or who has done a good job and is technically competent, or who has paid their
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You’ve probably heard lots of companies offer all sorts of fun freebies for your birthday. Well, I like free (good!) stuff, so each year around my birthday I go on the hunt for free birthday treats from some of my favorite places. And I do it for two reasons: I like free stuff (I said
Depending on what decade you grew up in, you will likely remember a time when picking up a phone to make a long-distance phone call was a big deal. A really big, expensive deal. Video was for the likes of Hollywood producers or home-movie aficionados, but it certainly was not a tool most businesses would
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