Category: Leadership Development

Good Bye 2013 – Hello 2014!

As the holidays rapidly approach, December becomes a hectic time! Shopping, cooking, wrapping, decorating, and of course, all the year-end business deadlines! The last week of December can be an extremely productive week in 2013; and can help position the start of 2014 in the best possible way! So, this blog is intended to be a handy ‘end of the year’ checklist to help guide us – and trigger additional things to think about before the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve!

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3 Tips to Compound your Contribution!

Recently, I was turned onto a book entitled The Compound Effect, written by Darren Hardy, the founding editor and visionary force behind Success magazine. I love this book! It is not just the nuggets of basic insights which are indeed relevant and salient; it is how he references the many interviews he has conducted over the years in writing Success magazine, which give applicable examples to our own lives. A few key takeaways to wet our whistle…

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The era of ‘mooching’ and ‘connecting’….what gives?

This week’s podcast definitely addresses ‘a fine line’ in today’s world of networking, connecting, and full transparency through social media and other means. What are the rules of etiquette and professionalism when it comes to sharing, asking for and giving ‘free’ advice, and opening our virtual rolodexes for those in need? This is by definition – A Fine Line – and one for which is there is no pat answer. However, this podcast asks a few questions to hopefully get our juices flowing! Weigh in. I am quite certain there are opinions out there!

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Half Empty or Half Full? 3 Tips to Keep it Full

There is such a prevalence of negative messages in today’s world. The media is chock full of ‘if it bleeds it leads’ coverage…and in some ways we have become conditioned to not only expect the icky news, we feed on it. This morbid expectation and, at best, the placid tolerance of negativity has the potential to leak into every aspect of our lives.

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Disruption! A Featured Guest Blog Post

Nothing like disruption to get the stories going! And when the uproar is about the newspaper business, we get more than the usual number of critics thinking and writing about what it all means. So when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, using his personal fortune from founding Amazon, the stories were flying like Angry Birds.

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Everybody’s Got Something – 3 Tips to Get Over Yourself

Recently I was at a dinner which turned into a one-up discussion on steroids. We have all been at one of these gatherings where folks are comparing and competing for the best “fish story” of the evening. What was amazing to me was this: they were not trumping each other with positive achievements or the “outdoing of the Joneses” – they were trolling on about their lamentations, ills, and 12-miles-in-the-snow-with-no-shoes stories. What is up with this trend?

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Mid-Year and Stuck? Resources for the Needed “B12”

It is hard to believe it is July already and we are half way through 2013! Many of my clients have lamented they are not where they wanted to be at this point in the year. Yet, one thing I know for sure – if we stop pursuing whatever goal we aspire to achieve, we are guaranteed not to achieve it! So, what can we do to get our ‘mojo’ back?

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