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2021 (183)
- Good News: you have an emotionally charged group of leaders. Now: how do you convert that energy to the positive?
- Leaders: Make sure your confidence does not threaten your followers.
- Plan for the particular and the peculiar...because that's what you are...and so is your perspective.
- Knowledge costs money and lack of knowledge costs more.
- The power behind our reactions is far too important to be left to chance.
- Don't be fooled - only deliberate practice allows talents to master tasks.
- Only a silly person would waste time talking about not having enough time.
- The essence of business is exchange of value.
- Loyalty is Trust's better half.
- Good things come in little packages: that's the key to excellent work-process success.
- Organized people get work done; disorganized people get work repeated.
- Little of value exists without self-confidence. Self-confidence moves the world.
- Perception is reality...and perceptions change over time, taking reality with them.
- Toe the line and be ready to leap before opportunity knocks.
- Powerful leaders take us to new realities.
- When you see your boss's weaknesses do you see your opportunities?
- We should make meetings so laborious people choose to do the work between them over presenting excuses during them.
- Yes, it can be difficult...that's why it's called work.
- We benefit when someone or something makes us do what we can.
- Workplace High-Pressure: does it cut the feet out from under your smartest people?
- Negative feelings cheat us: they take much energy from us and they give little of value in return.
- Anxiety: be present, don't fret over it, observe it in real time, & learn what it takes to control it if it gets out of hand.
- Howling at the moon won't make it any brighter & yapping dogs don't make their owners any smarter.
- "When you chase your tail ‘literally’, you get tired; when you chase your tail ‘figuratively’, you get nowhere."
- Creativity in science appears when insightful theories test known 'truths'. The same applies in business.
- We all have the same amount of time...we know the past is gone...we know we have the present...we only hope we have the future.
- Sometimes you just can win!
- People think 600-700 words per minute. People talk 100-200 words per minute. Most people listen...maybe 1 or 2.
- Small business is like walking a tightrope: failure to step gets you nowhere & slip-ups bring you down.
- "Fear is (a) an impulse, (b) a habit, (c) a disease."
- 5 reasons to listen: (1) to understand, (2) to act, (3) to respond, (4) because it's your job, & (5) because you like people.
- Some ancient wisdom for Success: Have bone in back, not bone in head.
- If you want to teach someone, first find out what they believe they already know.
- Don't let yourself get so busy you let Situations catch you unprepared...anticipate Situations, plan ahead.
- The greatest of leaders change themselves. They mould their character to remove the bad habits that impair leadership.
- Inspire business people by letting them know that you know what they do when they are at work.
- Few situations provide opportunities to do big things; all situations provide opportunities to do small things.
- Never Give Up..You owe it to yourself...You owe it to your family...You owe it to Life.
- About Influencing Powerful People - #1
- When a combination of skills, goals, & plans is not present, people give up their dreams & hope.
- You are so derisive...if only you could change that "r" to a "c" you'd have one good character attribute going for you.
- Our fingers naturally point outwards. Perhaps that's why we point at others when it's time to place blame.
- The joys of job seeking & hiring: people connecting & maximizing the achievement of common goals.
- The more you use your talents the harder it is to wear them out.
- Two keys to beating your competition: (1) Start & (2) Finish.
- If you want to build people up don’t knock people down.
- Intrinsic Goals feel right...they align with our talents & strengths...they inspire & energize us.
- In pre-historic times people who didn't listen got eaten...now they propagate at will.
- Be nothing if not courageous.
- Other people prefer it when you are present-minded rather than absent-minded.
- When we to want to win at all costs, our perspectives become quite blind to the realities of situations.
- Inspiration is the music of creative intelligence.
- Hope is not a strategy but it is an essential ingredient of leadership.
- Self-knowledge is the often-overlooked success ingredient.
- Business flourishes when pleasant-enough personalities exchange interesting ideas.
- Willpower: use it and it grows as you grow.
- We praise our phones by calling them "smart" then we toss them away, replacing them in their adolescence.
- Some never tire of fighting the same battles, using the same weapons, & meeting the same defeats. What peculiar stamina!
- If you assume communication is easy, you’re dreaming alone. If you find communication is easy, you may be dreaming with others.
- Dreams of a better future help generate a better future.
- People are 'selflings': that's a good rather than a bad thing...so focus on yourself...regularly.
- You worked in your business, then you worked on your business. Now, you're overdue to work on yourself.
- Duplication annoys some people - others recognize repetition is a key to learning and repeated errors signal failure to learn.
- Your personality strengths give you a chance. What you do with them today is what really counts.
- If trust is at the heart of meaningful business relationships, insight is in the brain.
- Even those not blessed with natural, pleasing personalities can learn to think and bite their tongues.
- Discipline yourself if you wish to persuade others.
- "Get a Life". Reality TV has added a whole new dimension to that old admonition.
- Mediocrity happens when we live under the wings of our bad-habits.
- When people are annoyed about setting goals, don't fight against the flow - help them make predictions.
- How is it people who are 'too busy' find time to share their problems with others & watch all that Reality TV?
- "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain
- Better to fix the problem than to fix the blame.
- Organized people get more done; disorganized people get more stress.
- Problems become weak when they face clear goals and a strong desire to succeed.
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks...unless, perhaps, you praise him enthusiastically...and feed him the meat he craves.
- Anticipate situations you cannot control & train yourself so you avoid feeling anxiety or stress when they arrive.
- When you know defeat has arrived muster your courage and take one more step ahead.
- Over 2000 years ago, Roman Stoics developed the habit of waiting a day before beating slaves who had erred.
- If you cannot be interested at least be interesting!
- Written Goals don't just help you set your work-priorities, they help you define your personal Values.
- About structure...shouldn't your people see your business at least as solid as the building you work in?
- Negative feelings by their very nature tend to alienate and isolate us. Then they go about wasting much of our energy.
- What we do not know has never increased so quickly....choose focusing over fretting...choose to use Talents.
- When self-confidence shines it is charismatic, magnetic, & contagious.
- Some people are way too busy talking to learn...
- Hope is a waking dream much craved by people. This explains why people rally around leaders with vivid vision.
- Good followers want to vent their strengths. And you want to see strength in action...am I right!
- It seems you can build a business on very complex things and on very simple things, but not in-between.
- Have you ever asked your customers what they would like you to measure?
- It's okay to yell and scream at work...celebrations do not have to be subdued.
- Sales mastery involves a clear & narrow focusing of Personal-Strength Energy.
- Better to procrastinate when the task is under-whelming than when it is over-whelming.
- Strategies for managing error-induced anxiety can lead to happier, more-productive lives.
- Talent can get lost...even young Mozart was too busy playing notes to focus his mind on quality music.
- Mediocrity happens when we live under the wings of our bad-habits.
- We know the right things to do...even while we are not doing them.
- Isn't it ironic that successful people are busy while unsuccessful people are too busy?
- Our pervasive habits take us both to and from our elusive goals.
- Self-control is a double-edged force: when it's strong it builds confidence; when it's weak it builds fear.
- Battles require people; People require battles.
- Like Beauty, Fairness is in the eye of the beholder.
- Problems are like icebergs: the biggest parts of them are below the surface.
- Social Media provides an excellent opportunity to say what you say instead of do what you do.
- Dreams of a better future light the path to that better future.
- If you want to win someone over then let him know that you know what he does when he is at work.
- Maybe it isn't more blessed to give than to receive - consider the Ben Franklin Effect.
- In general, people don't lack the desire to make changes. They lack the skill and habit.
- If you can convince yourself you are too busy then you too can make worse decisions.
- Willpower is about converting self-drive into purposeful action.
- You too can see the positive things in people...just open your mind then your eyes.
- Discipline is the only remedy for wasted Talent.
- Talk so people listen...listen so people talk.
- Habits come in two flavours: green for Good and red for Bad. When you Influence others, don't make them see red.
- Win-Win deals happen when Self-Confidence meets Self-Confidence.
- An interview or performance review question: How do you use your Talents to expand your ability to influence people?
- When you communicate, the processes you use influence people more than the logic you express.
- About Decisions: as a general rule, avoid making them when you are stressed or pressed.
- In business – discussions are good, decisions are better, and delegated decisions are best.
- Talent without discipline - good for hobbies, not so good for businesses.
- Problems can be like icebergs, with their most-troublesome parts hiding below the surface.
- Mistakes become demons only when they know we haven't learned their lessons.
- Self-knowledge is an essential ingredient of success...it's the 1st ingredient. Spend some time on that. You're worth the effort.
- Eggs don't hatch where scarcity-thinking roosts.
- The 3 Prongs of Innovation: Invention, Discovery and Stumbling Upon.
- When we were newborn babes, we somehow knew the best way to get what we wanted was kicking and screaming.
- When troubles consume your thoughts, remember "Your tooth will cease aching if your house is afire..."
- In ancient times it was easy to protect intellectual property...when chisels were stolen few thieves could write in stone.
- You cannot be worried, be angry, be frustrated and make money.
- Time management tip: file files. Their name lets us know what we are supposed to do with them.
- Business Growth is made of Innovation & Invention & Self-Improvement & more Self-Improvement
- If Necessity is the Mother of Invention then Courage must be the Father.
- For one reason or another we human beings were born with egos...so be it...don't fight it...live & learn with it.
- You gotta go the first mile before you start talkin' about going the extra mile.
- As your creativity increases your ability to receive good advice decreases.
- What habit-thing lurks around Urgency, allowing it to defy logic and beat out Importance, time after time?
- Discipline: It's about teaching, learning, & accepting most-likely-correct ways of doing things.
- About deviant behaviour in business: remove some, emulate some, & take care with the choices you make.
- Values are the ground rules that drive actions/behaviour. Shared values are the ground rules for behaviour in business.
- Battles require people; people require battles.
- Choose your battles well; choose the battles that align with your Talents & Strengths.
- Don't shoot the messenger until you've at least had a chance to see the opportunity.
- When you observe the How, the Why either resonates and amplifies the peaks or dis-harmonizes and diminishes the peaks.
- You fool no one and annoy many when you set bars higher than you yourself can jump.
- Wow - you're sure surprised to find others become silent when you put down their ideas!
- Problems are both the beast and the beauty of business.
- Those who seek perfection in others will find the human condition is permeated with imperfections.
- You know you need to take small side-steps to get out of a Bad-Habit ruts.
- There is no set reality; reality is but what we make of it, nothing more, nothing less, unless we ask for another's view.
- Time is a most-precious thing. Shame on the people who repeatedly waste time then complain about not having enough of it.
- Success Key: find the growth that aligns with both the pessimists’ good habits and the optimists’ interests in new things.
- When you make a fine argument...zip it, listen, watch, & learn.
- When you solve a problem at your workplace check to see if the solution could help your clients...and suppliers.
- I didn't see the financial meltdown coming. I didn't see the economic recession coming. I do see some things now...
- For situations you cannot control, learn how to avoid feeling anger, anxiety, fear & frustration.
- Are you still trying to close that sale? Is your Persistence based on accurate thinking or denial?
- Ease - success appears easy; Dis-Ease - failure happens without ease or appearance of easy.
- Communication tip: If you want people to buy into your ideas then you must 'pre-communicate'…and over-communicate.
- In days of old, fear made us fit and functional. Now, with many options as close as our remote, we rarely allow that.
- If we had not learned the word "No" so well when we were young, we would spend a lot less time ruminating about our mistakes.
- The greatest leaders overcome their bad habits. They mould their character to improve their ability to influence others.
- It's your choice - be organized or be too busy.
- Introduce Interests & Express Expectations...do not leave these vital communications to chance.
- How to Master Sales: learn how to ask good questions, listen, think, & share solutions.
- If you are spending too much time fighting fires at work, your career is getting doused.
- Don't delegate any task you cannot do yourself...except software engineering.
- Intolerant people see weaknesses where others see strengths.
- When Leaders tell followers what to do they need to limit that telling to BIG PICTURE things.
- The less confident you feel the more you criticize others.
- When there's no two ways about it, it isn't good conversation.
- So you have a mind like a steel trap do you…then you will know intelligent life forms choose to avoid traps.
- One thing I've learned about drawing lines in the sand: before you draw them, set your Master Rules.
- Abundance exists in the ability to control your thoughts.
- Be comfortable allowing what people do to overrule what they say.
- Courage breeds Confidence and Confidence breeds Conviction & Creativity.
- Personal strengths, desire to achieve, & attitude: 3 key things you can develop.
- It seems - providing advice on how to succeed is nowhere near as difficult as helping people succeed.
- Willpower consumes energy. Energy is scarce. Use willpower wisely.
- People have their secrets and certain questions defy honest answers.
- In business, the best relationships are built when pleasant personalities exchange interesting ideas.
- Common sense: easy to see in self but tough to find in others. A pessimist said that. I have no idea why.
- Keep your eyes & ears open: They may be able to preach what they cannot practice.
- An ounce of predilection is worth a pound of objection.
2020 (284)
- You worked in your business, then on your business. Now, work on yourself.
- Even when happiness appears to be all that's happening, it brings Value.
- If you can not come up with a new idea then figure out a new way to use an old one.
- If you want to hit a grand slam in business, use your WOMBAT.
- When you design change you must do it in a way that helps people get over their fears.
- Love success and exert yourself striving for it OR Hate fear so much you do whatever it takes to remove it.
- When you criticize people their brains scream "No" and constructive communication is over.
- Fear is neither our birthright nor our destiny...it is simply a bad habit we picked up and chose to live with...or overcome.
- Here's a definition of Mediocrity: living in bad-habit shadows.
- To lead, use light fingers at the controls. Heavy-finger governance and control just sends things off kilter.
- A comment for the media: Bad news does not have to make such good news.
- If we had not learned the word "No" when we were young, we would spend a lot less time thinking about our mistakes.
- Where are you coming from? & Where are you trying to go?
- Willpower: we make a good habit of it or it slips away on us.
- If our ancient ancestors thought and acted like they were too busy they would have been eaten. Then where would we be?
- "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." [a quote, far from Yogi Berra and Mark Twain]
- Don't give ideas the brake, give ideas a break - Support a Local Curious Person!
- It takes two to tug-of-war...unless, of course, you choose to battle people in your head.
- Errors only become limitations when we choose to give them that power.
- You have a choice: you can multi-task for mediocrity or you can focus for excellence. What's your choice?
- Allow a bit of the child in you to generate and enjoy workplace humour.
- Leaders do best when it is clear they have sacred rules, which we call “The Master Rules”.
- Willpower is the human body's most energy-intensive process.
- If you are uncomfortable with your work, that's contagious. If you enjoy your work, that's contagious.
- Extra, Extra, Read All About It: The Future Shock Pandemic Is Upon Us. Many now unable to return phone calls.
- "I'm too busy". That's a real good way not to be thinking.
- "I had to succeed because I finally ran out of things that wouldn't work."
- Courage is the 'Prime Enabler'. It enables self-analysis, self-confidence, curiosity, creativity, & innovation.
- Beware: a dose of your own medicine could be a tough pill to swallow.
- Why did Evolution deny human ears the privilege of showing us when they are actually operating?
- I'm annoyed by that cliché "skin in the game'" I want to hear more about skull in the game.
- An ounce of problem-finding is worth a pound of problem-solving.
- Necessity and Courage walk hand-in-hand with their finest child, Confidence.
- People don't need 'empowerment' as much as they need 'un-entanglement'.
- Discontent, regardless of how it is packaged, just may be the best vehicle for positive change.
- Hiring Rule: If you blink, don't even think...
- People are more inclined to follow than to lead; good followers enjoy huge opportunities.
- Consequences are the legs that support accountability.
- The busier we are the less we remember...don't fight it...use check-lists.
- Seek the upside in ordinary tasks: seeking simple work and doing it well; knowing its link to positive outcomes.
- Communication tip: Google the words "how to listen better". Millions of ideas! Just pick 2 or 3. Start trying them today.
- Overheard at the Placebo Plant..."Listen up Boss, I've got this great new product idea."
- If you do not know your limitations then your willpower won't.
- Curiosity, Moderation & Variety are the archenemies of Bad Habits.
- While leaders must set Rules, they must also empower managers to be innovative as they pursue goals.
- 3 abilities rise above all others: intelligence, willpower, & drive
- An ideal way to help people: show them how to 'disentangle' the energy and power they, naturally, possess.
- If you want to influence then Learn to Listen.
- If you do not know your limitations then your willpower won't.
- Seek Simple advice: 2 types of people succeed in business: (1) those who 'get it' and (2) those who observe & learn.
- I used to give people pieces of my mind. Now, I know I cannot afford such giveaways.
- Understanding Fire: That's one of Man's greatest achievements. That applies both externally and internally.
- Intrinsic drives often persist as lifelong drives.
- Leadership grit grinds & grows.
- Here's a good habit: test your Decisions against the Values you hold dearest.
- Catcheth thou when thou doth protest too much.
- About Influencing Powerful People - #3
- Creativity feeds and grows...depending on the curiosity behind its dominating questions.
- Sales people should select heroes, learn from them, and emulate their talents & strengths.
- People mirror trust.
- Ancient communication wisdom: "Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
- As the pace of change increases, so does the power of leaders' courage & confidence.
- Spirited Leaders know that needs of the spirit lead to deeds of the spirit.
- When you say "I don't have time", what are you really thinking? Why not communicate that real information instead?
- Talents tend to bounce off Tasks they do not like.
- The Layman's Mindfulness: use more noggin, do less sloggin.
- Unresolved, lingering problems gnaw away at brain energy. Attack problems and pluck that destructive power away from them.
- IoT: an unlimited supply of hands holding utensils ready, waiting and able to feed product and service development.
- When leaders fail at the little details, especially the little interpersonal details, trust erodes.
- Isn't it ironic that successful people are busy while unsuccessful people are too busy?
- Top performers feel disappointed when they make errors. Then, quickly, they replace that thinking with confidence.
- If you simply must get something out of your system, make it productivity.
- If you want to develop more self-control, start by setting goals.
- A successful Sense of Urgency: that's doing things promptly when you know the right things to do and you know how to do them well.
- Most people tend to express problems in ways that do not reveal the true source of their pain.
- Under-Promise and Over-Deliver…Under-Talk & Over-Listen
- If you want to influence others, influence yourself first. Make little changes for the better. Then share that good habit.
- It's OK when you have an ego; it's not OK when an ego has you.
- Some people become problem magnets...attracting a never-ending series of similar problems.
- When Opportunities seek out people to visit, they pretty much avoid all the too-busy people.
- Better to be skilled at puzzles than cross words.
- If you want people to bring your ideas to life, show an interest in theirs.
- Trust is gained in small increments, one consistent action at a time.
- Ignorance is bliss; enlightenment is bliss: the work in between is the tough part.
- Only when comforable with your communication will Egos help you bring about the changes you desire.
- If you think time flies, try holding your breath while your boss is telling a story.
- Persistence is Self-Discipline in Thought then Action then Thought then Action then Thought then Action...
- Everyone wants to use personal strengths to create value and see others showing appreciation of that value.
- Speak of the devil's advocate...better still, bite your tongue.
- Here's a Catch-22: People get so busy 'in their minds' they have no time to address their own ineptitude or anyone else's.
- Perfectionists show us how natural talents can create bad habits that out-muscle willpower.
- Your communication style influences people much more than your logic.
- 'Just Do It!'...then do some more!
- What was that you said about listening?
- If you point out 1 error the person may accept your feedback. If you point out 2 errors the person likely won't.
- Here's an investment with high ROI: spend time thinking about and planning how you delegate work.
- The question shouldn't be, Is the glass half-full or half-empty? It should be, Is the glass half-full and half-empty?
- Our deeds tend to leave permanent shadows. Often invisible to us but seen clearly by others.
- Ego is the part of the mind that causes us to do what feels good to us because we think it looks good to others.
- Learning from practice makes perfect - Learning is the essence of mastery.
- We simply must spend more time imagining Possibilities..."Think of things - not as they are but as they might be."
- If you had no problems on your mind, how much would you think?
- While leaders must set rules, they must also empower people to be innovative as they pursue goals.
- Errors visit us to make sure we haven't forgotten we exist to learn.
- People are more inclined to follow than to lead. This can be painfully clear when egos are unleashed.
- Do not assume the purpose behind your instructions is obvious.
- If you cannot see the forest for the trees, you're out on a limb.
- People eat sour fruit sparingly. Yet they complain about it much.
- Some things are urgent; some things are important; very few things are both urgent and important.
- Good leaders repeat messages so good followers don't repeat errors.
- Procrastination is a lot like using your dentist's drill on your own teeth...
- Let's not stumble along purposeless roads...let's construct better paths.
- Ask value-packed questions. Allow time for people to think, express themselves, and provide value-packed answers.
- Discipline yourself if you wish to persuade others.
- Even objective, well-intentioned, well-delivered criticism gnaws, rips, and tears into thin skin.
- Curiosity doesn't kill cats...it just makes them very interesting.
- Perhaps, complaining about other people is gratifying...perhaps, it satisfies a need?
- Ancient communication wisdom: "Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
- Disciplined thoughts lead to successful actions.
- When you display anger people get defensive. (Wow -Who'd have seen that coming!)
- Don't muddle through the same old problems. Engage Talents and address new, more-lucrative problems.
- It isn't about who's right or who's wrong. It's about who does and who doesn't have emotions under control - and Why?
- Winners seek solutions and think of better places. Losers agonize over problems and fear uncertainty.
- You cannot force a round talent into a square task.
- Why anger is better than frustration
- Automated reporting tools only work when managers are doing the right things.
- Success contains a blend of 'imaginative' & 'disciplined' thinking.
- At the rate people are now listening, evolution will remove our ears in a few generations.
- When growth is stalled, many argue in favour of the status quo; fear of change often trumps common sense.
- When there's no reason or rhyme maybe it's time to change your tune.
- When you make a fine argument...shut up, listen, watch, & learn.
- Don't let a few bad apples sour your trust in people.
- Self-discipline brings out the value embedded in talent.
- With the pressing of all those buttons, the 30-Second Elevator Speech is going down.
- Thought has two forms: one is Creative, the other is not.
- The great teachers didn't dwell on stress. They focused on the human virtues.
- An ounce of problem-finding is worth a pound of problem-solving.
- How To Create A Real Scary Sales Monster [a recipe]
- The more you squeeze their heads in the vice the less clearly they think.
- Lack of confidence is evident when people talk too much during good times then talk too little during bad times.
- Many people have a personal relationship with Time: Time serves as their scapegoat.
- You think about how you act at work. Do you think about how you think at work?
- May your molehills remain molehills and may your ego choose molehills over mountain climbing.
- Educate your brain: don't just stuff it full of facts and demand it work harder - mould it so it does a good job of thinking.
- Problems are like icebergs: their most-damaging parts are below the surface.
- Energy is primal. Your energy is your gift. How are you making best use of it?
- Less than 20% of people work at making changes; over 80% of people require ongoing assistance & leadership.
- REPUTATION: a thing that slowly grows before it glows.
- Multi-task for mediocrity - or - Focus for excellence. That's the choice.
- Money- it can build quality character...but only if it is earned with effort, over time.
- If you think you are too busy then you are thinking wrong.
- You don't see yourself the way others see you. Need proof? Look in a mirror. See - you already got it backwards.
- Some things are urgent; some things are important: very few things are both urgent and important.
- The Value of putting individual’s Talents & Strengths to work [at work]
- Power of Will & Spontaneous Creativity...aren't they the wonderful, bi-polar highlights of our human condition!
- Expanding Good Habits: that is Life's Major Construction.
- Fear is powerful. It is able to close our eyes and ears...and, sometimes, even our mouths.
- Money- it can build confidence & quality character...but only if it is earned with effort, over time.
- It's better when business solutions are less complicated than their problems.
- Small stuff is like a sponge. If you sweat over it long enough it becomes so big & heavy it drags you under.
- Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Baby steps of action pave the path to unshakable self-confidence.
- Our habits take us either toward or away from our goals.
- Should you celebrate your Good Habits more often?
- Focusing on people's strengths helps them feel more engaged & motivated, which leads to increased profit.
- If you want to change the world then spend 20 minutes a day working on self-understanding.
- Biting your tongue just before it expresses something quite right but nonetheless doomed to be poorly received – that’s a good thing.
- Do the right little things right.
- The optimist probably are just as wrong as the pessimists...but optimists have more fun.
- Perfectionist: someone who takes great pains…and gives them to others.
- The thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
- Focus on the goal and move beyond the obstacles; Move beyond the obstacles and focus on the goal.
- We can alter our emotions. We can, for example, reduce the emotion of anger from high to low.
- Emotions wrap themselves tightly around thoughts about pain from loss...squeezing logic out. Work to loosen their grip.
- Keep your chin up...especially when things are a pain in the neck.
- ...the parasites live where the great have little secret sores."
- It's easy to make a significant change: just tell everyone you have developed an electricity intolerance.
- Hope is a waking dream much craved by people.
- High self-esteem increases one's appetite for risk; appetite stimulates initiative; initiative stimulates action.
- Up-skill the hands that use your finest business tools; make master craftsmanship a top priority.
- Forget your mistakes…right after you learn from them.
- Work performances are mirrored in work feelings. Work feelings are windows to Talents & Strengths.
- "Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so courage begets success, fear begets failure."
- How do we rebuild trust? One small, well-thought-out, personal, positive step at a time.
- People know what's going on in my head...my thoughts are important to them...time for my wake-up call.
- Make things as simple as wisdom allows.
- Change happens when people experience New Things….as in 'Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things'
- "Man was born into fear in that he was born into a world of which most of the energies were set against him."
- How do you psych yourself up for that really important sales call? Special clothes? Self-talk? Loud music?
- It's tough to enjoy the humour at your office when it all happens behind your back.
- Emotions wrap themselves tightly around thoughts about pain of loss...squeezing logic out.
- Strong leaders excel at using their talents, knowledge, and skills. Strong Leaders influence others to do that same thing.
- 2 types of people succeed in business: (1) those who naturally 'get it' and (2) those who observe well & learn.
- People pass lie detector tests 2 ways: telling the truth and lying while believing the test won't work.
- People with lesser ambitions should not impress their non-champion beliefs on champions or other more-confident competitors.
- Using talent and venting strengths...that’s self-expression at its best.
- Accept the fact things will go awry: appreciate that provides opportunity to build courage and confidence.
- Once upon a time there were no walls. People must have beat their heads against something else.
- Think in new ways; think in good old ways...just don't waste time dabbling in-between.
- Without stress there can be no Self-confidence.
- When you are beating your head against an unbudging brick wall, don't make your next decision another bad one.
- Why can't the glass be both half-full and half-empty?
- A person who chases two rabbits is 'too busy' to catch either.
- Plan to repeat, repeat, repeat...that's one key to teaching, inspiring, & influencing people.
- Disorganized people are too busy because they repeat their problems and their tasks.
- Primate evolution! We enjoy the benefits of both opposing thumbs and blame-pointing fingers.
- Even if that cloud doesn't have a silver lining it still might bring a rainbow.
- I developed a serious interest in other people ... in less than 6 decades.
- No means No! (...well maybe we need to think a bit more on that!)
- I'm annoyed by that cliché, 'skin in the game'. I want to hear more about skull in the game.
- If you want to influence others, communicate your interests before making requests.
- Bad habits make no one feel good.
- None of us can forecast the future: the best we can do is predict...do our best...then deal with actual situations.
- Invest the time it takes to understand people. Understanding provides for trust, motivation, & leadership.
- The cornerstone of our personality, our mental attitude, shows up as the general flavour of our thoughts.
- A Baker's Thought: It's easy to eat a cake, it's harder to make one, and it's even harder to create a cake recipe.
- Why are some people so inclined to be morale busters at work? And - How might we help them get over it?
- Influence/lead/manage yourself if you wish to influence/lead/manage others.
- Disciplined thoughts lead to successful actions.
- Criticism is a contagious thing...it's the polar opposite of 'Pay It Forward'.
- If you are not ready to change then don't waste energy complaining.
- Good leaders don't drive people; good leaders fuel the drive in people.
- If today you can't find time to do things right then tomorrow you will find time to do them again.
- Some people take the same route to work every day...if that route is blocked, they cannot find a way to work.
- About Influencing Powerful People - #2
- Don’t blame ‘lack of time’ when the real culprit is personal disorganization and self-imposed mayhem.
- Communication band-aids don't solve the discomfort of negative thinking.
- Only tiny creatures perceive molehills as mountains.
- Note to Self: Today I will not jump to any obtusions.
- Ambiguity poisons profitability.
- If we just had some clone spray then we could all communicate better.
- Better to climb mountains in your mind than on the back of your donkey-ego.
- Your brand starts with your character and the culture you breed: your brand stalls or flourishes there.
- Communication Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
- When we look outward and feel things are beyond our control it is most difficult to look inward and muster self-control.
- Communication is like a paper-towel paradox: the thicker the explanation the less absorbent the message.
- Ancient communication wisdom: Catcheth thou and stoppeth thou before thou doth protest too much.
- In small doses anxiety energizes and hones focus. In large doses anxiety becomes a demon that destroys quality of life.
- A thin skull allows important stuff to get in easier.
- Recipe for Complication: mix up some simple things, set basic courtesy on the back burner, & watch people get heated up.
- We can choose to multi-task and struggle or we can choose to task-multi and win.
- Trust your gut feel...after all, the fast food industry trusts your gut feel.
- Give yourself injections of that oxymoron, Constructive Criticism
- Loose lips sink ships…Loose cannons sink 'em too.
- When they are messing on the floor, sometimes you just gotta put down your newspaper.
- May your ego refuse to jump over molehills to join the mule trains climbing all those mountains!
- Maybe, curiosity kills cats; definitely, curiosity motivates people.
- 100 grams of planning are worth a tonne of excuses.
- Mediocrity muffles motivation
- Trust is Influence's sweet spot.
- Respond to cries for help with listening ears, seeing eyes and thinking brains...rather than with your cries for help..
- Take your big treasure chest of Curiosity off the shelf...dust it off...open it up...and put its contents to good use.
- Negative thinking cannot be band-aided into insignificance: it is a thick, multi-layered, multi-textured problem.
- Multi-task for mediocrity or focus for excellence.
- "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Einstein
- People want to hear positive messages…give them what they want...deliver some positive messages.
- Talking Russian Roulette: shooting off your mouth, ignorant of what your brain has placed in the cylinder behind your muzzle.
- Sooner or later, entrepreneurship beats egos down to a successful size.
- With Courage we are able to truly know what we believe in and what we don't believe in.
- Curiosity sits close to Spirit...always envisioning and whispering ideas.
- Don't thumb your nose at the grindstone.
- "Leave no stone unturned." That ancient wisdom reeks of perfectionism. Better to leave some stones unturned!
- Don't let your desire for metrics and measures overrule your common sense.
- Do you commit to being useful every day from here to eternity? Has making yourself useful become one of your good habits?
- Intrinsic Goals feel right...they inspire & they energize.
- Isn't it a funny fact-of-life: nobody taught us how to do the most-important things...like changing our Bad Habits.
- If you want to be a leader in your industry sector, return phone calls and respond to e-mail.
- Anxiety is in our genes...it is the legacy of fight or flight, which allowed our ancestors to bring us us.
- Embrace the realities of life...and do not be too disappointed in results.
- When people tell you they are giving 110%, do you think they are talking in superduperlatives?
- Do you spend more time (A) annoying people or (B) watching TV people you don't know annoying people you don't know?
- Listen to what people say...are their words the words of Victims or Initiators?
- You are the smartest person you really know.
- Doubters don't build.
- Better to be skilled at puzzles than cross words.
- I'm sure that slow-boiling the frog doesn't work. Business gurus got to stop feeding that nasty rumour.
- Sometimes it only takes a little prick to burst your bubble.
- Talents are not what we do; Talents are the 'substances' that define us and make us unique.
- Leadership is about meaningful stories well told and important actions well done.
- Willpower eats up energy - choose your battles with care.
- You cannot drive people when you work them into a fog.
- Free up some time and ease your mind - have a pre-set process for dealing with problems.
- Beware those vagrant thoughts. [Unless, of course, you want to waste a lot of time.]
- Sometimes innovation comes from dreams: sleeping and waking dreams bring intuition and flashes of inspiration.
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2017 (70)
- Command & Influence
- We are too tolerant of conflict!
- Seeing the Big Picture & Drilling Down, into the Details
- Being Right, Being Wrong, & other ways to Annoy People
- What awesome power lies in the combination of strong willpower guided by strong definite life-purpose.
- Victors, Victims, Masters, Servants...a thought exercise
- Choose your Reaction to Errors
- Optimists pave the paths so pessimists can rule the world
- Criticism, Adrenalin Spikes & Improving Relationships
- We should not throw away our Time Scraps..
- Conflict at our offices: is it a foe or a friend?
- Choose Planning [as the saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail]
- Do you want to be on time?
- When lions charge...
- What mental-attitude flavour do you choose: Positivity, Negativity, or Indifference?
- Don't dwell on the wrongs; just learn from them.
- No question about it, people are interested in learning how to kill good ideas
- Sorting Out Your Decisions Before You Make Them
- A leadership mindset generates constructive behaviour...creating, evoking, and building on great ideas.
- Here I go...Telling you about Asking
- People. Icebergs.
- Do Unto Yourself Before You Do Unto Others
- Visions, Biases & Evolution
- When you annoy people you don't make money...[unless you happen to be a sitcom actor or a Don Rickles clone]
- People Question Their Bosses’ Decisions [“The Point”]
- Helping People who are Indecisive
- Honesty and the Other Person's Feelings
- getting at the Maybe rut
- Stepping On, Stepping Aside, & Stepping Up
- Elegant solutions - serving business leaders.
- Building Self-confidence
- Self-Improvement happens when talent-laden mind-sets come to the aid of skill-sets.
- Crossing the transition line in a close-knit group
- Biting your tongue just before it expresses something incorrect or stupid or otherwise wrong – that’s a good thing
- Why did Evolution deny human ears the privilege of showing us when they are actually operating?
- Character reigns supreme
- Time to Stop Hogwashing Relationship-Selling
- Do you choose to pay your bills on time?
- Are you too busy to know other people’s businesses?
- When Alpha Dogs Collide
- Removing some Confusion around Intuition
- Let’s not water down Confidence.
- Workplace Conflict: Sometimes Good, Most Times Bad
- What matters is what you're going to do next.
- What Business People Say They Want...and Their Bosses Fail To Deliver
- In support of self-consciousness
- Simplicity generates efficiency
- How to develop your positive mental attitude
- Here's to the Contrarian!
- How to make sure your confidence does not threaten your followers.
- When it ain't broken but it's broken
- Don't ya just hate it when people tell you they are giving 110%!
- The Importance of the Learning Sequence
- Big Hairy Audacious Anxieties
- Escaping a whirlpool of compounding errors
- Indecision and the Procrastination Death Spiral
- Personal Values, Rules of Engagement, & setting off those Hot Button alarms
- The Law of the Barbell: Some people spot, some people lift, and some people just keep adding weights.
- Hope and Goals
- Pinocchio lives.
- The conflict between long-term desires and short-term gratification
- I have much I want to listen to you!
- Mistakes are Stepping Stones – the question is, To Where?
- While You Can Teach About Entrepreneurship, You Cannot Create Entrepreneurs
- Don’t be Passionate about Shorthand Abstractions…they have no Integrity
- Say “Adieu” and then forget.
- There are 2 types of busy in business
- Favouring a realistic approach to Values, Virtues & Rules
- Two human abilities rise above all others: intelligence and self-control.
- Talents, Routine Tasks & not-Routine Tasks
2016 (145)
- Driving on the Talent Track
- Trust is a fragile thing.
- ‘Real trust’ requires no thought; ‘Synthetic trust’ requires much careful thought.
- #BoxingDay Ernest Seller's barber is an ex-boxer. Ernest is at the barber shop with him now...about to get an uppercut.
- MERRY CHRISTMAS!
- The Boss forgot to take a cushion to sit on when he went ice fishing with Ernest Seller. The Boss caught polaroids.
- Last Christmas, two snowmen were chatting in Ernest Seller's front yard. One said, "You're right…I smell carrots too!"
- Aside from Ernest Seller, who has blue suede shoes and makes Christmas toys? [Santa's little Elvis.]
- 15 Ways to Influence Thinking & Inspire Action
- Ernest Seller's boss joked about bilking the snowman in the meadow. Now, the snowman is giving him the cold shoulder.
- Discern, then Do - and make a Difference
- Ernest Seller wants his kids to believe in Santa Claus…he wants his wife not to.
- In a word, the easiest way to get out of the box is jump.
- Feeling Well Cuddled vs Doing Good Work
- Growing with Self-insight
- The Best of Bad Attitude
- In favour of 1-Page Tools
- Strengths & Weaknesses…close neighbours
- Stopping to think about CRM tools
- Creativity & Intelligence
- About Habits & People & a bit about Bosses
- Leaders Must Think Better
- 10 Thoughts for Firing Good People
- 10 Thoughts for Keeping Good People
- 10 Thoughts on Hiring Good People
- Do you aim to give people more, less, or exactly what they expect?
- The Internet of Things: Our IoT Vision
- Success comes to those who are not too busy to think.
- Why present your thoughts?
- When you get even you become uneven.
- Lucky Dogs...Wishful and Wistful Thinkers
- Referrals bring huge value to small businesses
- Don't crow when you know...at least, don't always crow when you know.
- "Attitude is more important than Intelligence"...that's the wrong way to think about Attitude!
- ‘Belief’ brings peace of mind, confidence & success
- Thinking Big, without being hairy or audacious
- On Thinking: Thinking is the way I influence myself and others.
- The goals you want & the goals your Ego demands
- Why feel fear and sadness?
- "Is that so."
- It's time to stamp out Passion and Love in our Workplaces!
- Rhetoric, Actions & Consequences
- About our Family Business
- Will Power & Courage Value
- Ready, Willing and Able … What a wonderful combination!
- Negative Thinking – now, isn’t that a textured problem
- Do people know what work you do?
- That Small-business Leader's Mindset
- The legacy of post-recession fears
- All Hell's breakin' loose out there...
- Motivation, Hormones, DNA & all those self-help books
- Controlling the common littlenesses of human nature
- Does creativity crave structure?
- How do you go about making yourself useful?
- People feel victimized because they have not fully grown up
- How do you really hold someone accountable? Part 3
- inexpensive diamonds contain value - expensive diamonds contain flaws
- Better you have problems than problems have you
- I rarely write about morals...
- On Improving
- Curiosity bolsters self-confidence.
- Where egos have landed...
- What are you committed to deliver to your world?
- Saying "No"
- Lies & Young Kids
- The Silent & Still Worker
- People resist new things
- You know what you need - or, you don't? [Introduction]
- When it seems the left hand doesn't know what either hand is doing...
- Who sells Heinz ketchup?
- About Todd Henry's 3 Types of Work & 4 Worker Profiles
- On goals 'greater than ourselves'
- Nasty or Nice?
- Do you choose Action over Strategy?
- Anything's possible when it's Digital – Part 1
- On Accurate Thinking - Part 1
- Good things come to those who wait...if they're working while they're waiting.
- Ideation, Innovation, Intellection...and Ideastorming
- Maybe we should call it 'applied curiosity'…
- Leaders, Creative Confusion & Deaf Ears
- Courage & Lies - it's a simple equation
- Pessimists aren’t doomed to experience 'tough lives'.
- How do we provide valuable advice to true leaders?
- A Perspective on "Love your clients", "Fail often & quickly", and other fuzzy fads.
- Over all other traits of leadership character, Courage reigns supreme.
- waiting, waiting, waiting...AH...patience
- C'Mon Man! Let's be realistic about self-sacrifice.
- Your Peace of Mind ...&...Your Character
- Teams, Trust & Work
- Rational lies are irrational truths.
- Family business leaders versus managers...
- On Self-education
- Everything that tastes good is bad for me while everything that tastes bad is good for me. What's that all about?
- Find your balance between courage and consideration of others.
- Reawakening 'Positive Controls' [Your Controls...self-control]
- ‘being perfect by the end’ versus ‘doing better today’
- Decadence & Confidence
- Failure to Communicate
- When the going gets tough...
- Values, talents, achievements...and peace of mind.
- Got No Time & Ineptitude
- 6 steps for making positive use of Stress Energy
- You can make positive use of Stress Energy
- Mad Dogs & Distemper
- We experience Stress when we seek Meaningful Things
- Problems versus Challenges...and why P=2S+O will remain P=2S+O
- It takes courage to join hands around value
- Putting Stress Energy to Positive Use
- Getting over the perplexities of business development
- Prevailing Moods & Gauging Character
- Managing Customers’ Expectations [I don't think that description describes what needs to be done.]
- Might as well put stress energy to good use
- Our brains are amazing tools…what an understatement!
- Who wants to improve?
- Have you noticed - somebody's always telling you how to think?
- Spending time complaining about not having enough time - Don't you think that's being silly?
- Taking Anxieties to better places
- On Introversion
- There's Wanting & Hoping, then there's Believing
- Self-control, Self-discipline, & Self-organization.
- Humouring your demons
- Bully Fantasy
- Who wants to improve?
- It's all a matter of mindset
- The 'Golden Circle' of Criticism
- Always-the-Victim
- How do disorganized people accomplish productive things in business?
- If I could only help you focus...
- Leaders & What To Do About Stress
- Be There, Be Positive.
- Captiousness and Capriciousness
- (Don't) Guess who's paying attention to detail.
- On Indecision
- Wouldn’t you like to possess Placebo Empowerment?
- Revisiting Perfectionism
- Stress – a not-all-bad fact of life
- The King gets to make a mess
- Sense of Adventure...when you're not working at a Google wannabe
- As a general rule, Trouble = f(Control)
- When I fight anxiety anxiety always wins.
- Anxiety often becomes the Arch-Enemy of Success
- Energy: our internal fuel - too precious to waste
- When the going gets really tough, remember…
- Persist, repeat...and learn how to handle tough situations
- Fixing Attention-to-Detail problems
2015 (138)
- Frustration
- Know People
- Money & Motivation
- Fear - Motivation, Mother Nature's Way
- Stress and Anxiety: what's the difference?
- Do Family Businesses Have Better Values? [revisited]
- Observe
- If we build it better, they will come.
- Why can't you teach an old dog new tricks?
- Keep your goals in mind...and seek simpler paths.
- Perhaps it is time to revisit Personal Values?
- Do you believe trust is a fragile thing?
- Confidence provides the building blocks for Relationships
- Fresh-squeezed Sales Juice
- Talents & Strengths - another perspective
- More About Perfectionists
- Egos At Work - revisited
- Errors, Good Habits, & Bad Habits
- Nobody Likes Tired People
- You gotta learn how to tune strings before you can become a rock star!
- More bite-sized success
- Success & Self-Reliance
- Knee-jerk Thoughts & Half-Baked Ideas
- The pros and cons of crastination
- If you treat people like losers, you will not see them win.
- Don't agonize over things done.; don't hold too dearly prizes won.
- Money, Pay Cheques, Family-Business Anxiety & Anger
- Where there's a will there's a way. [Where there's no way there's no will.]
- When the going gets tough the tough get going...[that's the way to go].
- I've never met a leader, including the bad ones, who did not exhibit superior skills in the area of attention to detail.
- Improving Attention, Focus, & Concentration --- starting with understanding them
- The Joy(?) of Business Stress & Struggle
- On Purpose, With Willpower – and a willpower development tip
- Success Keys: Drive, Intelligence, & Willpower
- Use your Brain - Improve your Eyes and Ears!
- What engineers know about people's strengths
- Courage - Spirited Leaders' #1 Value [revisited]
- When dogs chase their tails...
- Working In Ihe Zone - Bolstering Your Willpower
- How do you really hold someone accountable? Part 2
- How do you really hold someone accountable? – Part 1
- Willpower converts mind-energy into Achievement
- The Bi-Polarity of Our Thoughts...and what to do about it
- Victim or Victor?
- About forcing change and whipping people
- What’s that about Natural Selection...
- If you don't have time, you have nothing.
- On Insight…an education better late than never
- What do you think about the "Law of Attraction"?
- Breaking Bad...Habits
- Intelligence, Accuracy, & Time
- The Mortal Post
- Victims of Time…Let's rally against that pathetic Fate!
- When expectations are out of synch with reality
- Carried away with and by technology
- Doing the right things - really, Whats that all about?
- Learn how to kill negative thoughts before negative thoughts kill your willpower
- Baby Boomers Hitting the Breakwalls of Change
- On Purpose, With Willpower
- What do you think about the profanity of our times?
- Tony Robbins, TED Talk - 6 Needs
- 10 Tips for Communicating with Colour-blind Folks
- Are You Superior to Circumstances?
- Taking another SWOT at strategic planning
- We do not have to fear fear itself!
- Enough about Attitudes of Entitlement
- Do you understand the most valuable assets you bring to your clients’ table?
- Quests, Questions & Cats
- Live & Learn
- Words & Syllables
- Humbling Others
- When ego craves intelligence recognition
- Problems playing along the path to Success
- Hyper-Delegation
- Reluctant Communicators
- A philosophy on learning
- Creativity...what's right versus what's wrong?
- When you annoy people, you don’t make money!
- When you annoy people you don't make money.
- Had it with Negativity?
- In favour of Courage
- Yes, we cry out for help...
- About choosing to develop Self-Control
- If I were King for a day [Ruling in The Land of Disorganization]
- 5 thoughts about Intellection & Thinking
- 5 thoughts about Achievers & Achievements
- Putting a finger on your entrepreneurial pulse
- Ears 3.0
- In awe of fiery-magnetism
- My fiascotic day
- Mini-Tangents and Mega-Tangents
- Note to Self: When you feel the need to Criticize
- You & Your Clients - a little picture
- When Egoic Wings Flap Out of Control
- Personal Strength is the Heart of personal Drive
- There’s something about “The Details”
- Being Memorable
- There are only 3 Business-Value Actions
- Clients' Clients Philosophy
- When the going gets tough...[you must tell] the tough [People how to] get going.
- Each Business Must Have Only One Boss...A Spirited Philosophy
- Business Leaders: Have you explained the Innovation Process to your People?
- Leaders are obligated to generate Opportunities
- Bosses Like Solutions A Lot More Than Problems
- “The Silent Fish Whistle” - an Ernest Seller episode
- Why Put Off To Tomorrow What You Can Put Off To Someday?
- The Fine Line of Weakness
- A Little Argument Against Being Negative
- “The Boss was Stewing” - an Ernest Seller episode
- Automation & Family Business
- Rules are made to be broken. Master Rules are not!
- Improving Focus...i.e., Focus on Work
- Inspire People - Influence Action - Grow Wealth!
- "Mr. Kaye’s Coffee" - an Ernest Seller episode
- Work Tasks: Below Me, Above Me, & Beside Me
- Ask value-packed questions
- "Cold Calls" - an Ernest Seller episode
- In The Zone of Life-long Learning
- Your power resides in your strengths: easily said, not easily done...and rampantly ignored.
- “Come Commission” - an Ernest Seller episode
- Why not take a SWOT at everything?
- Does purpose precede drive or does drive precede purpose?
- Are we the ‘captains of our own ships’, able to [if not designed to] determine where our ships are going?
- Here's a quirk of human nature: we are prone to value authenticity in others over self-awareness.
- "Go Fetch" - an Ernest Seller episode
- Inactions are as important as actions!
- Positive change – constructive change - is a process of small improvements.
- What is it about us that motivates other people?
- “ifs, ANDs or BUTs” - an Ernest Seller episode
- On Mentoring
- When a senior person's competence is being questioned...
- "The Genie" - an Ernest Seller episode
- Influence is the Essence of Leadership
- People Do Only 3 Things
- “Fading Fast” - an Ernest Seller episode
- The Lost Art of Silence
- “The Performance Review”
- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2014 (537)
- You want your business to grow and prosper in 2015...
- As you work at Influencing people in 2015...
- As you contemplate a productive 2015...
- MERRY CHRISTMAS!
- Do You Want To Expand Your Insight Power?
- What’s New With You?
- Our CFFB roundtable & "Things Happy People Never Do" [ #CFFB ]
- Empowering people for great decisions - expanded
- Why not ask good questions?
- Have you ever worked at not listening to people?
- Changing Culture, Improving Performance
- When you stop and think about it...
- It's your choice - multi-task for mediocrity or focus for excellence.
- Egos, Communication, & Positive Changes
- Getting Everything You Want
- A Dialogue - Change is constructive only when people are comfortable. [ #Change ]
- Getting Stuck on Problems & Seeking Help with Problems
- You too can be too busy
- You Just Cannot Take Communication for Granted
- Einstein and other heroes speak out in favour of Seeking Simple!
- Repeat to Influence
- Working In Your Strengths Zone
- Some Engineers think about People's Strengths
- How to convert Talents into Strengths...at Work
- To change the world spend 20 minutes a day working on self-understanding.
- Stop focusing on people’s weaknesses!
- How to improve your capacity to learn
- 10 Reasons Why You Should Not Volunteer for Difficult Tasks
- Why should we consider people's strengths before we assign tasks?
- When we want a person to succeed at doing a work-task
- Why we should think about work-tasks before delegating them
- Leaders must step up
- Enthusiasm @Work
- Yearning for more at work
- Bite-sized Success
- Business Involves Only 3 Actions: doing deals, delivering value, and receiving value.
- Some people are happy performing the routine day-to-day work. Some are not.
- In this hectic, fast paced, future-shocked world what are you doing to improve your attention to detail?
- I'm too busy so you get to make some money.
- People in corrals
- Some people just won't play fair
- Tackle problems: hit them high, hit them low...rip the ball out from their hands.
- We have a choice: we can multi-task our way to mediocrity or we can focus & concentrate for excellence.
- Willing suspension of disbelief: an entrepreneurial phenomenon
- When people don't do what you expect...
- A little too spoiled...
- Sometimes gut feel gets us into trouble...despite the warning signs from our tightening belts.
- Mother Nature soon destroys the things we place outside.
- Despite popular belief, the application of natural fertilizer does not help people grow.
- If you are not obtaining the results you want when you attempt to influence other people's behavior check your communication.
- Be self-conscious. Be very self-conscious. And be positive about it.
- Developing your positive mental attitude
- Multi-tasking: Somehow, successful people just 'get it'. Regular folks must work continuously on self-discipline.
- Perception Is Reality
- Top performers feel disappointed in themselves when they make errors. Then, quickly, they replace that thinking with confidence.
- Leaders' superior skills can be damned annoying
- Courage leads to many other valuable states of mind including self-confidence, conviction, and creativity..
- Clouds are Mother Nature's most emotional children: harmonious and playful; tempestuous and cruel...they reign over us.
- When climbing to Success take your hands out of your pockets & take one step at a time.
- How do you know you are at your best?
- Strange as it may seem, people shut down when they know you will put down their ideas. So choose to support others' ideas!
- For the love of...words.
- Better-world dreams: the best prescriptions for motivation and self-confidence.
- Take your big treasure chest of dreams off the shelf...dust it off...open it up...and put its contents to good use.
- "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Carl Jung
- Multi-tasking: Somehow, successful people 'get it'...naturally. Others require much self-discipline & practice.
- Success contains a blend of 'free' & 'disciplined' thinking.
- The awesome power of habit ... & ... putting it to good use.
- Discipline is the key to putting Talent to good use.
- Communication Tip...or Warning: If you want to shut them down, put them down.
- Communication Tip: When you make a fine argument...shut up, listen, watch, & learn.
- Communication Tip: People can accept difficult messages when the message-delivery process does not annoy them.
- Communication Tip: When you feel you don't have enough time try listening to someone...& see how slowly time moves?
- Communication Tip: We never should have agreed to 'Show & Tell'. We should have insisted on 'Show'.
- People think 600-700 words per minute. People talk 100-200 words per minute. Most people listen...maybe 8 or 10?
- Communication tip: The processes you use when you communicate influence people more than the logic you express.
- Communication Tip: Some get annoyed by duplication of effort - others recognize repetition is a key to learning.
- Pictures help people learn. Pictures help people remember. Cut back on words & increase your use of pictures.
- Communication tip: To expand your Influence, learn how to react more constructively to other people's body language.
- Talk about communication gaps...when you gaze into the communication abyss it screams back at you.
- The biggest problem in business today is Communication. We need to help people change that.
- Communication tip: When you know make presentations stop ah filling in gaps um with you know, ah, um...ad nauseam.
- In pre-historic times people who didn't listen got eaten...now they are able to roam the streets and work in offices.
- Communication tip: Strange as it may seem, people shut down when they know you will put down their ideas.
- Communication tip: Stand down, Step up, Shut up & Listen.
- When you criticize people you trigger their 'No' responses....and, at that point, constructive communication is over.
- Communication tip: If you cannot be interested at least be interesting.
- Communication question: When people tell you they are giving 110%, don’t ya just hate those superduperlatives?
- Communication tip: If you want to teach someone, first find out what they believe they already know.
- It isn't about who you are. It's about what you do and whether or not other people understand why you do what you do.
- Empathy - a genuine interest in and ability to understand another person's feelings - a wonderful gift to possess.
- A communication faux pas…I'm so glad you mentioned that because I have some important things about me to share with you.
- 2 important things to Communicate: Interest - WHY I'm doing something. Intent - WHAT I'm wanting to do.
- How do you know, with certainty, your perception of a person's behaviour is accurate?
- Communication suggestions for Leaders: How to make sure your confidence does not threaten your followers.
- Communication tip: It isn't about who's right or who's wrong. It's about who doesn't have emotions under control - and Why?
- Crystallize your thoughts & desires...clearly communicate details of Goals, Tasks & Actions. Then Do & Measure the Actions.
- When it comes to communication, vagaries ain't gonna get it done.
- Communication tip: Do not assume the purpose behind your thinking is obvious.
- Engineering Art & Science
- Rather than loudly blaring and flashing your products and services, try simply explaining why you are building them.
- When business leaders express their difficulties, we should listen well before we attempt to suggest solutions.
- Communication tip: If you're in the dark, don't make light of things.
- About Communication: When there's no reason or rhyme it's time to change your tune.
- Communication tip: If there's no two ways about it, it isn't good conversation.
- Communication tip: If you want to be a leader in your industry sector, return phone calls and respond to e-mail.
- Communication tip: Gather specks of agreement...make a molehill...and use it to construct a mountain of agreement.
- 2 Communication tips: Learn how to listen so people talk & Learn how to talk so people listen.
- From Concept to Action
- Communication tip: Knowledge backfires when it is controlled by the mouth.
- Communication tip: People want to hear positive messages…so why not deliver positive messages.
- Communication tip: Deliver messages different ways, use different vehicles, and repeat. That’s the way people learn.
- Sales-communication tip: Under-Promise and Over-Deliver …Under-Talk & Over-Listen
- Communication tip: Don't strangle your sales calls…stop choking your Clients with facts, figures, graphs, and analytics.
- Communication tip: Boiling thoughts down to one or two words is the stuff of communication genius!
- When you simply listen with an open mind...what are your Clients saying about your competition?
- Why Not?
- Communication faux pas: “People are talking and obviously it's nonsense so you begin to speak.”
- Communication tip: Measure your talking during meetings. Talk less than 30%, Listen at least 70%.
- Communication tip: If you want to influence then Learn to Listen.
- Seek Simple advice: Better to fix the problem than to fix the blame.
- Seek Simple advice: The busier we are the less we remember...that's why there's value in writing things down.
- Common Sense versus Common Practice
- Seek Simple advice: Listen to what people say...are their words the words of Victims or Initiators?
- Seek Simple advice: Baby action steps pave the path to unshakable self-confidence.
- Seek Simple advice: speak up and be heard, shut up and be appreciated.
- Seek Simple: Don’t make a career out of weaknesses….sounds simple enough…but…
- Seek Simple: Make sure your business solutions are less complicated than your problems.
- It seems you can build a business on very complex things and on very simple things, but not in-between.
- Some people just can't buy into other's ideas
- One key to business success is freeing up as much time as possible for not-Routine work. So, Seek Simple first.
- Focus is attending to & concentrating on important things; leaders need to Focus on People, Process, & Situations.
- Seek Simple: Remove office and desk clutter - reduce stress & increase clear thinking.
- Work-process needs to be simple & usable, systematic & clear, & properly communicated. Otherwise, it will not be catchy.
- The consultant's dilemma
- Recipe for Complication: mix up a few simple things, set basic courtesy aside, and watch people get heated up.
- Why are some people so inclined to be morale busters at work? And - How might we help them get over it?
- Seeking Simple: When things are (1) easy to understand, (2) easy to weigh against alternatives, (3) easy to implement.
- When we are able to describe things in 1 or 2 words we possess a tool of genius!
- Objective, well-intentioned, well-delivered criticism will still gnaw, rip, and tear thin skin.
- Bullies and confident people tend to win money disputes.
- Meetings, Communication, & Culture
- 5 reasons to listen: (1) to respond, (2) to act, (3) to understand, (4) because it's your job, & (5) because you like people.
- When you criticize people you trigger their 'No' responses....and, at that point, constructive communication is over.
- Do you know the nature of the relationships between the talents and work-tasks?
- Self-Reliance
- Sometimes when you're over your head it's too late to keep your chin up.
- Success can mean Failure. Failure can mean Success.
- Life sometimes beats attitudes down
- Trust: it's a dynamic thing that flows 2 ways; you extend it in order to receive it; it's about Action.
- Nowadays...technologies are becoming as fragile as relationships.
- People connections become business relationships when knowledge exchange is sparked by business insight.
- "Men trust their ears less than their eyes." It took 2400 years for psychologists to confirm this ancient wisdom.
- Here's a quirk of human nature: we are prone to value authenticity in others over self-awareness.
- Success follows those who communicate with enthusiasm.
- Nurture and develop a successor for your business. Mentor this person. Partner with this person.
- 9 out of 10 people believe they are good at communicating
- When business leaders express their difficulties, we should listen well before we attempt to suggest solutions.
- The busier we are the less we remember...that's why there's value in writing things down.
- Cooperation has a mind of its own...and that quick mind works like a On/Off switch.
- Do people want to be accountable? I expect the answer is, "Yes".
- Inherent Accountability
- You don’t have time to do a good job on those things today. Take comfort. Later, you will find time to do many of them over.
- Pinocchio lives. Just the other day, I listened to him. You gotta watch closely to see that nose growing.
- The same old problems
- Discipline/manage yourself if you wish to persuade/lead/manage others.
- When we don't know the Why behind the problem our solutions do little to stop repeated errors.
- If you were in charge of recruiting placebo-plant employees...would honesty be a desired trait?
- Nowadays...technologies are becoming as fragile as relationships.
- Physical proximity can spark & ignite inspiration; physical proximity can cause the release of creative excellence.
- If you want to feel like a winner - Win!
- Mistakes gain the power of demons when they know you haven't learned from them.
- It's one thing to not know how. It's another thing to not be bothered by that. That's anti-tenacity.
- Small, fresh thoughts compound to become amazing innovations.
- Don't let your desire for metrics and measures overrule your need to exercise common sense.
- The bigger the ego the smaller the perspective.
- ...at the interface of management People and management Process
- Power of Will & Spontaneous Creativity...aren't they the wonderful, bi-polar highlights of our human condition!
- Go miniature or go home...or do both...and add Maker-thinking to your business strategy.
- With a fanfare of keen sense of judgment, unleash creativity.
- Take a peek past the business of day-to-day life, catch another glimpse of your imagination.
- When we add creativity to a commodity it evolves beyond commodity.
- Creativity is like a good sauce - you have to boil it down before it has the flavour.
- Focus on Actions? or Focus on Outcomes?
- People self-motivate when you provide situations that combine structure with ability to be creative.
- Desire: the fan that stokes the flames of imagination.
- Touching & holding imagination: can there be anything more magical?
- That Aversion to the Details
- Imagine the possible: create the impossible.
- Necessity, when imaged in a courageous & confident mind, is the mother of invention & creativity.
- Winners seek solutions and think of better situations. Losers agonize over problems and fear uncertainty.
- Despite popular belief, repeated applications of natural fertilizer do not help people grow.
- Few situations provide the opportunity to do big things; all situations provide the opportunity to do small things.
- We are problem specialists - I mean each of us tends to attract an ongoing series of a certain type of problem.
- A 3-Step Strategy for Solving Problems
- You will do better in business when your solutions are less complicated than your problems.
- Don't muddle through the same old problems. Engage Talents and address new, more-lucrative problems.
- Leaders must provide Opportunities to followers…that’s an obligation of the Leadership role.
- Problems wave eagerly at us...signaling opportunities and time for action.
- When business leaders can step aside, understand their challenges, and express them without bias...solutions are at hand.
- Often, the sources of problems are chameleons...appearing to be one thing while in fact being quite different things.
- Solving Problems: that's the essence of growing relationships with clients and growing business.
- Solving Problems: that's the beauty and the beast of business.
- Some say, "Forget your mistakes". That's not good advice.
- Better to fix the problem than to fix the blame.
- Sense of Urgency - Sense of Adventure
- Many people find it much easier to choose from solutions (a),(b),&(c) than to create their own solutions.
- Strike while the iron is hot...Yes! - but first, learn how to recognize the signs of heat.
- Problems are like icebergs: the biggest parts of them are below the surface.
- "Put your best people on your best opportunities, not your best problems." Jim Collins
- Apes and monkeys solve problems for the fun of it. If they enjoy solving problems then so can we.
- Exercise your good habits; exorcise your bad habits.
- Talk about bad habits: Instead of saying "I don't have time"why not communicate the real problem?
- Picture this: the leader in you is stepping beyond one of your Bad Habits.
- Problems don't have to be ugly things
- With habits playing such a huge role in our lives, why are they so often left to chance?
- Communication Tip: when you you know make presentations stop ah filling in gaps um with you know, ah, um...ad nauseam.
- Habits are like rivers. If your leave them alone they more or less follow the path of least resistance.
- A couple of good communication habits - Interest: WHY I'm doing something. Intent: WHAT I'm wanting to do.
- When the habit called misery enjoys company people don't accomplish constructive things.
- "I'm too busy." When you make a habit of saying that you addict yourself to self-injections of stress.
- The Anatomy of a Project
- Habits have a special relationship with Time. Understand this relationship...it is mind-bending.
- A couple of thoughts...
- If, as Aristotle said, we are what we repeatedly do then by doing a few new things we can change who we are.
- Expanding our limits - what benefit we receive when someone or some situation causes us to achieve what we couldn't.
- Accountability arrived before Responsibility
- Good Habits contribute to our betterment and take us toward our Goals.
- Personal Organization - today, every 30 minutes, stop what you are doing to check and take note of your mood.
- The Law of Attraction...for unbelievers
- Simplify the way you view people... People Only Do 3 Things - Good Habits, Bad Habits & New Things.
- Sometimes personal accountability takes a back-seat and assumes someone else is doing the driving.
- Sometimes Ernest Seller responds to make-or-break situations by making errors & breaking rules.
- Make meetings so laborious people choose to do the work between them over discussing the not-done work during them.
- When the status quo is getting you down, take your finger off the limbo switch!
- 7 Steps to learning from Problems
- Doing Work: for most people, working & creating a thing brings more satisfaction than receiving that thing without effort.
- If you feel you don't have time - Listen to someone. See how slowly time moves?
- On Incompetence Road: we stumble over people and processes; we get bogged down in problems' potholes and ruts.
- If you want to teach people how to drink water, don't stuff garden hoses down their throats.
- The thicker the explanation, the less absorbent the message. It's like a paper-towel paradox.
- In pre-historic times people who didn't listen got eaten...now they are able to roam the streets and work in offices.
- The only reason you are not a donkey is that your mother and father were not donkeys.
- Sometimes it seems you just can’t win.
- A coach transports people to where they want to go.
- Don't put off to tomorrow what you can do some day.
- Sycophants & lickspittles: friends in need serving egos in need.
- How do people who are too busy find time to (1) share their problems with others & (2) watch Reality TV?
- Misery enjoys company...but it makes a lousy dance partner.
- You are not paranoid - people ARE watching you.
- Knowledge becomes power only when it can be harnessed and put to good use...and that takes Skill!
- Good risk managers are allergic to mediocre leaders [and vice-versa].
- You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...but you can make a doggie treat...& maybe you can make a porcine purse.
- When you display worry people get nervous. (Wow - Who'd have seen that coming!)
- They call them TV programs because they program your mind. But...why do they call those things Reality Shows?
- Life's too short to beat the laughter out of me!
- I'm so glad you mentioned that because I have some important things about me to share with you.
- The Layman's mindfulness: use more noggin, do less sloggin'.
- Work-Life Balance
- Misery enjoys company...as long as that company is in agreement...Misery is selective.
- Delegation is like walking a tightrope: a slip-up can bring you down and failure to step gets you nowhere.
- Grow your business by (A) Watching more Reality TV...say those alligator hunters or (B) Learning how to make changes.
- Go miniature or go home...or do both...and add Maker-thinking to your business strategy.
- Learn how Honey Boo Boo and the guys in those storage closets can help your business. see The Thinking Behind The Tweet.
- Absent-minded versus Present-minded
- The U.S high school system has the lowest rating of G8 countries - on the bright side: they got Duck Dynasty.
- I want to witness great business music... not just tooting of horns, let alone too much start-up cacophony.
- Some folks are so brutal in front of faces they don't have to repeat themselves behind backs.
- Today is 'National Return An Unsolicited Phone Call Day'... [Give a salesperson or an innovator a break today]
- When you boil them down [of course, figuratively not literally] people have not changed.
- Procrastination can be OK...as long as you are not almost going through the motions.
- INTEGRITY: there's a word that may go without saying...but not with just saying.
- It's OK to voice clichés...as long as you don't make a practice of living them.
- The 'mob' is convinced someone else is responsible for motivating each and every one in the 'mob'.
- Extra, Extra, Read All About It: The Future Shock Pandemic Is Upon Us. Many now unable to return phone calls.
- Social Media - the convoluted opportunity to watch what they say, not what they do.
- How much would you pay for a can of clone spray?
- Eating Elephant Emotions...you gotta eat them one bite at a time.
- Unknowns: it's a good thing we only have to deal with them when we solve problems, do tasks, & think creatively.
- Why would a boss not enforce a company policy/rule?
- It is getting far more difficult to run with the silent, hobbled majority.
- When people say, “I didn't know” or “I didn't know how”
- If you're in the dark, don't make light of things.
- Beware Criticism: a dose of your own medicine could be a tough pill to swallow.
- Without batting an eye...or crossing a 't'.
- An ounce of predilection is worth a pound of objection.
- When you get the hang of a thing you can execute it well.
- Give credit where credit is due...and make your payments too.
- When you put two and two together you have the answer.
- Here's why I fail to complete work tasks the way you want.
- If you're over your head, maybe it's too late to keep your chin up.
- Plan for the particular and the peculiar...because that's what you are...and so is your perspective.
- A gram of prevention is worth a tonne of cure.
- It ain't the cards yer dealt...it's how you play the hand yer dealt.
- A Leadership Tip: Be a booster not a rooster.
- “If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes, stop boring!” George Jessel
- English proverb: If two ride a horse, one must ride behind.
- When selling: Don't be redundant. Don’t say more than required or be excessive. Don’t be superfluous.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- A Baker of sales would say, "Enthusiasm is the ingredient that causes sales to rise".
- Do you sometimes act like a 6-yr-old soccer player, focusing on the ball instead of the goal?
- Just the other day, we heard a fellow bragging that he never boasts.
- More ancient sales advice: when not able to move ahead, kick self in behind.
- Ancient sales advice: salesperson better to wear out soles of shoes than seat of pants.
- Go out on a limb. That’s a good way to find some fruit.
- People are talking...obviously it's nonsense...so you begin to speak.
- Learning from practice makes perfect...perfect use of Talents, that is.
- There is a very special relationship between Talents/Strengths and motivation/ability to perform Tasks well.
- So, your boss has weaknesses...awesome - you have opportunities!
- 7 Tips for Lasting Relationships
- Sorting out Thoughts & Actions
- When you are open-minded differences are strengths; when you are close-minded differences are weaknesses.
- Personal Values and Strengths are wonderful ingredients…when they are put to good use.
- Meshed closely with the Leader’s Personal Values, we find the Leader’s Strengths.
- Zero in on your talented people...and construct tasks around them.
- We didn't see the financial meltdown coming. We didn't see the economic recession coming. We do see some things now...
- Be clear about your Interests and state your Vision...then let your people express their Talents around your Vision.
- Mastering a Profession
- Good Leaders focus their attention and concentrate on the places where Talents meet Tasks.
- Do you gain advantage from value embedded in the relationships between the talents and work-tasks?
- Entrepreneurs have an innate talent: moving back and forth between narrow and wide focus...identifying opportunities.
- About personality assessments
- When People Who Lack Motivation Annoy You
- People are happier and do better work when their Talents & Strengths are put to good use.
- Up-skill the hands that use your finest business tools; make master craftsmanship a top priority.
- Invest in developing your people, building their strengths, and covering their weaknesses.
- 4 things businesses must excel at: leading-edge work ethic, people strengths, business development, & technology.
- Delegation - Asking for Help
- Every leader wants to build something of value...with individuality & personality...backed by Talent.
- When considering Talents & Strengths, two human abilities rise above all others: intelligence and self-control.
- Role Mastery happens when personal Strengths are combined with 10,000 hours of hard work.
- People's Talents & Strengths are the icing on the business cake.
- When you recognize your strengths, click with people, and can lead change….then you can sell...or lead!
- Don’t make a career out of weaknesses….sounds simple enough…but…
- To succeed you must know your Strengths: don't be vague about them, don't guess...figure them out.
- Followers' Frustration
- You're too busy...you have too little time...you're moving too quickly...so...you're missing connections.
- While you can't find time to do all those things right; you will find time to do many of them over.
- Successful people have more time & you're too busy. Where's all this leading?
- Bosses need to help their people cry, "Uncle!"
- I'm too busy to be present. I'm busy agonizing over the past, I'm busy worrying about the future, and …
- What time-management lesson do you learn from people who have the habit of saying, "I'm too busy"?
- "I'm too busy." When you say that you inject yourself with a dose of stress.
- If you feel you don't have time - Listen to someone. See how slowly time moves?
- Leaders who cannot see their forest need a good pruning.
- Aren’t you glad you work with people who are not too busy to learn how to improve at business?
- The Driven-Leader's Flaw
- If you burn the candle at both ends, don't set it down on your desk.
- If you can convince yourself you are too busy then you too can make worse decisions.
- So many people think they are too busy when, really, they are too unprepared.
- If you want to be a leader in your industry sector, return phone calls and respond to e-mail.
- People who think they are too busy see interpersonal differences as a problem rather than a blessing.
- When you think you are too busy you set limits on the amount of value you can generate.
- Bosses can easily be lured into the Parent Trap.
- Negative feedback works when it is well-packaged and the recipient of it has high self-confidence.
- There's a reason the words confidence and competence have a similar ring to them.
- Discipline/manage your courage & self-confidence if you wish to persuade/lead/manage others.
- Build confidence & free up time by having a pre-set process for dealing with problems.
- You know you are a leader when you feel confident in the face of confrontation.
- Be self-conscious. Be very self-conscious. And be courageous & confident about it.
- Self-confidence is the magnetic recipe that attracts the things you need most to succeed in business.
- Courage, Confidence, & Succeeding at Business
- Necessity, when imaged in a courageous & confident mind, is the mother of invention.
- "Win-Win" deals happen when consideration of others is combined with personal courage.
- COURAGE: self-inflicted mental and moral strength to act in the face of fear, difficulty, and criticism
- In an ideal-project world...
- Courage & Confidence: states of mind to be valued, developed, and put to good use.
- When people first meet your self-confidence their spirits are bolstered. Soon, your self-confidence becomes contagious.
- Confidence & Readiness go hand in hand.
- Authentic Self-confidence, properly illustrated and linked to Vision: this is at the essence of leadership.
- If we want to change society then the best 1st step is spending 20 minutes a day working on self-understanding.
- Baby action steps pave the path to unshakable self-confidence.
- About that TED Talk - "Offices & Meetings"
- Courage is the 'Great Enabler'. It enables self-analysis, self-confidence, curiosity, creativity, innovation, and more.
- Ken Blanchard says feedback is the breakfast of champions. [The problem is, at least 80% of people are allergic to it.]
- Teach about the 'rights'; learn from the 'wrongs'.
- Thought Tweet #1000
- Thought Tweet #999.999
- Thought Tweet #999.99
- Thought Tweet #999.9
- Thought Tweet #999
- Getting Bang for the Buck out of Procedures
- Thought Tweet #998
- It's your personality, it's your choice
- Thought Tweet #997
- When you are afraid of losing your job
- Thought Tweet #996
- Thought Tweet #995
- Choose Yourself Wisely
- Thought Tweet #994
- Thought Tweet #993
- 1000 Thought Tweets
- Thought Tweet #992
- You too can transform your character
- Thought Tweet #991
- Thought Tweet #990
- Thought Tweet #989
- Good Habits are the building blocks of trust.
- When annoyances consume me, I must step away and observe my thoughts.
- Thought Tweet #988
- Good Habits, Bad Habits, & Your Net Worth
- When they think you are an idiot...
- Thought Tweet #987
- A Solution Mindset
- Thought Tweet #986
- Quick to Criticize, Tough to Build Trust
- Thought Tweet #985
- The Destructive Power of Attribution Bias
- Thought Tweet #984
- Thought Tweet #983
- Big Changes, Difficult Changes...never Impossible Changes
- Thought Tweet #982
- Thought Tweet #981
- Thought Tweet #980
- Thought Tweet #979
- What must-haves are on your Criticism List?
- "Criticism, meet Decision"; "Decision, meet Criticism"
- Thought Tweet #978
- Thought Tweet #977
- Thought Tweet #976
- Our lives are lived in little steps.
- Thought Tweet #975
- The Awesome Power of Procrastination
- Thought Tweet #974
- When we tell people what to do our batting average is low.
- Thought Tweet #973
- Thought Tweet #972
- Shall We Fail or Shall We Succeed?
- Thought Tweet #971
- Thought Tweet #970
- Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
- Thought Tweet #969
- Thought Tweet #968
- Thought Tweet #967
- Good Habits - good working habits - take time to grow and take hold.
- Thought Tweet #966
- Assaulting Self-Esteem
- Thought Tweet #965
- Thought Tweet #964
- Sense of Accomplishment
- Thought Tweet #963
- Control your ANTs and Influence People
- Thought Tweet #962
- On Influence
- Thought Tweet #961
- Thought Tweet #960
- Thought Tweet #959
- Processes & Situations - The Keys to Influencing People
- Thought Tweet #958
- About attention-to-detail errors
- Thought Tweet #957
- Intrinsic, Extrinsic, & Leadership
- Thought Tweet #956
- Thought Tweet #955
- Thought Tweet #954
- Affixing Labels of Blame
- Thought Tweet #953
- Do as I say and don't expect me to give myself the same advice.
- Thought Tweet #952
- Thought Tweet #951
- Thought Tweet #950
- Thought Tweet #949
- Gone are the days...
- Thought Tweet #948
- Thought Tweet #947
- Fear of Failure
- Thought Tweet #946
- About Perfectionists
- Thought Tweet #945
- We have fears. And, sometimes, fears have us.
- Gut Feel: Insight...or just hunger and bad habits?
- Thought Tweet #944
- Thought Tweet #943
- Small-business management disconnect and the disappearance of the executive assistant
- Thought Tweet #942
- Thought Tweet #941
- Fragility & Thinking Ahead
- Thought Tweet #940
- Thought Tweet #939
- About Influence
- Thought Tweet #938
- When differences were settled with cannons
- Thought Tweet #937
- Thought Tweet #936
- Thought Tweet #935
- Self-Centered...and more
- Thought Tweet #934
- Stress - how do you measure it?
- Thought Tweet #933
- Reward intrinsically, extrinsically...and is it about efforts or results?
- Thought Tweet #932
- Thought Tweet #931
- Thought Tweet #930
- Stress - some pros and lots of cons
- Thought Tweet #929
- Good leaders were first good followers
- Thought Tweet #928
- Thought Tweet #927
- Thought Tweet #926
- Good Things come in 3's...including the ways leaders INFLUENCE
- And another 5 ways to Influence
- Thought Tweet #925
- 5 more ways to Influence
- Thought Tweet #924
- Thought Tweet #923
- Thought Tweet #922
- 5 ways to Influence
- Thought Tweet #921
- When you were a baby you, naturally, knew enough to learn.
- Thought Tweet #920
- When Disagreement Between Partners Becomes Chronic Dysfunction
- Thought Tweet #919
- Thought Tweet #918
- Thought Tweet #917
- Measuring Motivation
- Thought Tweet #916
- Thought Tweet #915
- Bringing Process to People & Bringing People to Process - Part 3
- Bringing Process to People & Bringing People to Process - Part 2
- Thought Tweet #914
- Thought Tweet #913
- Bringing Process to People & Bringing People to Process - Part 1
- Thought Tweet #912
- Thought Tweet #911
- Thinking about situations... before they happen
- Thought Tweet #910
- Thought Tweet #909
- Thought Tweet #908
- We grow when we...
- Thought Tweet #907
- Seeking Simple & The Power of 3
- Thought Tweet #906
- Thought Tweet #905
- Timing is everything & Everything in its time
- Thought Tweet #904
- Thought Tweet #903
- Thought Tweet #903
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- The Right People On The Bus...a twist on branding
- Thought Tweet #902
- Thought Tweet #901
- Seek First To Understand People Who Do Not Understand Themselves
- Thought Tweet #900
- "People need to go through different processes to get to the same place."
- Thought Tweet #899
- Thought Tweet #898
- Thought Tweet #897
- The reality inside TVs is burying the reality outside TVs
- Thought Tweet #896
- Don't blame the People
- Expect emails will get you into unexpected trouble
- Thought Tweet #895
- Thought Tweet #894
- From Business Tasks to Organized Business
- Thought Tweet #893
- Thought Tweet #892
- Thought Tweet #891
- Demystify Business Process - Inspire People - Grow Profits
- Thought Tweet #890
- Thought Tweet #889
- It is time to take Future Shock more seriously
- Thought Tweet #888
- Thought Tweet #887
- Why do people resist change?
- Thought Tweet #886
- Thought Tweet #885
- Putting Einstein's insanity-definition out of work
- Thought Tweet #884
- Selling your business
- Thought Tweet #883
- Thought Tweet #882
- Driving Business Value
- Thought Tweet #881
- Some day you and your business will part company
- Thought Tweet #880
- Thought Tweet #879
- You are in business to generate money.
- Thought Tweet #878
- Setting Succession Plan Objectives – Covering Future Money Needs
- Thought Tweet #877
- Thought Tweet #876
- Succession Planning - allying for success
- Thought Tweet #875
- The Vivid Vision of JFK
- Thought Tweet #874
- Only when you know who you are can you influence others.
- Thought Tweet #873
- Thought Tweet #872
- On Execution: There's 2 ways to get things done in business
- Thought Tweet #871
- Thought Tweet #870
- Take Steps Toward 'Change Leadership'
- Thought Tweet #869
- Delegation: The Decision-Making Engine of Business
- Thought Tweet #868
- Thought Tweet #867
- Thought Tweet #866
- Thought Tweet #865.5
- Thought Tweet #865
- Integrity - such an interesting piece of human fabric
- Thought Tweet #864.5
- Let's put an end to that "I'm too busy" mindset.
- Thought Tweet #864
- Thought Tweet #863.5
- Thought Tweet #863
- Thought Tweet #862.5
- Thought Tweet #862
- The 1 Thing Everyone Wants
- Thought Tweet #861.5
- Thought Tweet #861
- Thought Tweet #860.5
- Thought Tweet #860
- Thought Tweet #859.5
- Think in new/old/best ways!
- Thought Tweet #859
- Thought Tweet #858.5
- Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, No [...and now...likely...it's over!]
- Thought Tweet #858
- Thought Tweet #857.5
- Thought Tweet #857
- Thought Tweet #856.5
- Taking SWOT to an even better place
- Thought Tweet #856
- Thought Tweet #855.5
- How much thought do you invest in training your people?
- Thought Tweet #855
- Thought Tweet #854.5
- Some people simply do not get along...
- Thought Tweet #854
- Thought Tweet #853.5
- Thought Tweet #853
- Thought Tweet #852.5
- Thought Tweet #852
- Desires
- Thought Tweet #851.5
- Thought Tweet #851
- Thought Tweet #850
- The Drive to Make Sense of Things
- Thought Tweet #849
- Thought Tweet #848
- Thought Tweet #847
- Put your foot down...say "No" to "No"
- Business communication...at its best
- Thought Tweet #846
- Thought Tweet #845.5
- Thought Tweet #845
- ‘Creative Engineer’ is not oxymoronic!
- Not a problem
- Thought Tweet #844
- Thought Tweet #843
- Popeye said, "I am what I am" but in the end he always ate his spinach.
- Thought Tweet #842
- Thought Tweet #841
- Thought Tweet #840.5
- Thought Tweet #840
- Thought Tweet #839.5
- Thought Tweet #839
- Thought Tweet #838.5
- That wasn't a perfect storm, it was another rogue wave.
- Thought Tweet #838
- Thought Tweet #837.5
- Failure To Perform- WHY?
- Thought Tweet #837
- Thought Tweet #836.5
- Thought Tweet #836
- Saying "No" & Seeking Simple
- Thought Tweet #835.5
- Thought Tweet #835
- Thought Tweet #834.5
- 2 Different Ways to Solve Problems
- Thought Tweet #834
- Thought Tweet #833.5
- Thought Tweet #833
- Thought Tweet #832.5
- Thought Tweet #832
- Values Come First
- Thought Tweet #831.5
- Thought Tweet #831
- Thought Tweet #830
- Thought Tweet #830.5
- Delegation - you get the picture
- Thought Tweet #829.5
- Thought Tweet #829
- Thought Tweet #828.5
- Thought Tweet #828
- TurnAhead - repairing a damaged business, taking a business to the next level
- Thought Tweet #827.5
- Some people resist working towards goals...Why?
- Thought Tweet #827
- Thought Tweet #826.5
- Finding & Keeping Top-Notch People - some questions
- Thought Tweet #826
- Thought Tweet #825
- Thought Tweet #825.5
- Delegation - some questions
- Resiliency - while I don't like the word, I do like this Dale Carnegie advice
- Thought Tweet #824
- Thought Tweet #824.5
- Accountability - Match Tasks to Influence [and Strengths]
- Thought Tweet #823
- Thought Tweet #823.5
- Thought Tweet #822
- Thought Tweet #822.5
- Change your thinking about Integrity & Improve your ability to Influence others
- Thought Tweet #821
- Is Self-Confidence a manifestation of Self-Esteem?
- Thought Tweet #821.5
- Use Fear as a catalyst for Courage
- Task-multiing beats up on Multi-tasking
- An Equation for Trouble
- Thought Tweet #820
- Thought Tweet #820.5
- Thought Tweet #819
- Entrepreneurs: Driven to Construction; Driven to Distraction.
- Thought Tweet #819.5
- Thought Tweet #818
- Delegate Self-Motivation
- Thought Tweet #818.5
- P=2S+O and the 4 Hierarchies of Delegation
- Thought Tweet #817
- Thought Tweet #817.5
- Thought Tweet #816.5
- Thought Tweet #816
- A Spirited Leaders scenario - #5
- Thought Tweet #815
- The more you struggle the less you achieve goals. Yet, failure can trigger better ways.
- Thought Tweet #815.5
- Thought Tweet #814.5
- People Want To Do Good Work
- Thought Tweet #814
- Thought Tweet #813.5
- Bewildering Subordinates
- Thought Tweet #813
- Thought Tweet #812
- Thought Tweet #812.5
- 8 Ways Employees Fail to Handle Delegation
- Thought Tweet #811
- SITUATIONS, Bad Habit Reactions, Good Habit Reactions
- Thought Tweet #811.5
- A Spirited Leaders scenario - #4
- There are Task Donors, There are Task Recipients, & Task Transplants Involve Compatibility
- 80/20 Rule
- When should I delegate work to other people?
- Thought Tweet #810
- Thought Tweet 810.5
- When we empower people...
- Thought Tweet 809.5
- Thought Tweet #809
- Thought Tweet #808.5
- Delegation - What is that?
- Thought Tweet #808
- Thought Tweet #807.5
- 10 Reasons to Refuse To Delegate
- Thought Tweet #807
- Thought Tweet #806
- Thought Tweet #806.5
- The problem with programmed How-To courses
- A Spirited Leaders scenario - #3
- Thought Tweet #805
- Thought Tweet #805.5
- Delegation - That Tightrope Act
- Sir Isaac Newton & the power of the Mastermind Alliance
- Thought Tweet #804
- Thought Tweet #804.5
- Thought Tweet #803.5
- Thought Tweet #803
- Thought Tweet #802
- Thought Tweet #802.5
- A Philosophy for Living...Part 2
- Thought Tweet #801.5
- Thought Tweet #801
- A Spirited Leaders scenario - #2
- Thought Tweet #800.5
- Thought Tweet #800
- Living is Learning
- Thought Tweet #799.5
- Thought Tweet #799
- A Philosophy for Living
- Thought Tweet #798.5
- Thought Tweet #798
- Thought Tweet #797.5
- Thought Tweet #797
- The pulse of your business decisions: the beat goes on
- Thought Tweet #796.5
- Thought Tweet #796
- A Spirited Leaders scenario - #1
- Thought Tweet #795.5
- Thought Tweet #795
- Teaching & Learning: Noble & Wicked Ways
- Thought Tweet #794.5
- Thought Tweet #794
- Did our ancestors have thicker skin?
- Thought Tweet #793.5
- The Attributes of a Leader
- Thought Tweet #793
- Thought Tweet #792.5
- Fragility and The Ooch
- Thought Tweet #792
- Thought Tweet #791.5
- Thought Tweet #791
- Thought Tweet #790.5
- 3 Ideas for Repairing Damaged Relationships
- Thought Tweet #790
- Thought Tweet #789.5
- Thinking about Process...and Creativity
- Thought Tweet #789
- Thought Tweet #788.5
- Thought Tweet #788
- Thought Tweet #787.5
- Should your business have a Mission Statement?
- Thought Tweet #787
- Thought Tweet #786.5
- Thought Tweet #786
- Thought Tweet #785.5
- If I was your CEO, I would...
- Thought Tweet #785
- Thought Tweet #784.5
- Thought Tweet #784
- Take Talent To Task & Build Motivation
- Thought Tweet #783
- Thought Tweet #783.5
- Thought Tweet #782.5
- Thought Tweet #782
- Link your Goals to Actions...Measure Actions & Build Motivation
- Thought Tweet #781.5
- Thought Tweet #781
- Cavemen: another tribute
- Thought Tweet #780.5
- Thought Tweet #780
- Thought Tweet #779.5
- Thought Tweet #779
- Habits. What are they anyhow?
- Thought Tweet #778.5
- Thought Tweet #778
- Thought Tweet #777.5
- The Magic of AHA!
- Thought Tweet #777
- Thought Tweet #776.5
- Thought Tweet #776
- Thought Tweet #775.5
- Good Decisions: at the heart of your business
- Thought Tweet #775
- Thought Tweet #774.5
- Thought Tweet #774
- Simplify Your Actions
- Thought Tweet #773.5
- Thought Tweet #773
- Thought Tweet #772.5
- 3 great reasons to strive to excel!
- Thought Tweet #772
- Thought Tweet #771
- Slipping a DISC
- Thought Tweet #770
- No Nonsense, Common Sense for Best Practice
- Thought Tweet #769
- Thought Tweet #768
- Choices: I make mine - You make yours!
- Thought Tweet #767
- Thought Tweet #766
- Thought Tweet #765
- Who's motivating whom?
- About Napoleon Hill
- Thought Tweet #764
- Thought Tweet #763
- Some thoughts about Delegation
- Thought Tweet #762
- Thought Tweet #761
- Thought Tweet #760
- The Dysfunction Of Our Times - #1: Business People Who Don't Take Their Payment Obligations Seriously...addendum
- Gravity & Levity: Why-How Opposites Attract [WHOA]
- Thought Tweet #759
- Thought Tweet #758
- Thought Tweet #757
- How to stop complaining
- Thought Tweet #756
- So the customer wants a carrot, does he!
- Thought Tweet #755
- The Dysfunction Of Our Times - #1: Business People Who Don't Take Their Payment Obligations Seriously
- Thought Tweet #754
- Thought Tweet #753
- People are social creatures...with interesting approaches to making decisions
- Thought Tweet #752
- Thought Tweet #751
- A Safety Tip [few people know]
- Thought Tweet #750
- Thought Tweet #749
- Cutting Through The Confusion: Seeing Good Qualities in People
- Thought Tweet #748
- This donkey has a burr
- Thought Tweet #747
- Thought Tweet #746
- Thought Tweet #745
- I have Big Beef About People Who Spew Out the Word INTEGRITY
- Thought Tweet #744
- Thought Tweet #743
- Thought Tweet #742
- Relationships Are Being Shocked Into Evolution
- Thought Tweet #741
- Thought Tweet #740
- Motivation, Self-Confidence...Entrepreneurship & Sales
- Thought Tweet #739
- Thought Tweet #738
- Thought Tweet #737
- Can You Open Your Mind To Criticism?
- Thought Tweet #736
- Do as I say, not as I do!
- Thought Tweet #735
- 2 Simple Tools: 1 for Thinking, 1 for Action....both for Communicating.
- Are you updating your business tools?
- Thought Tweet #734
- Thought Tweet #733
- Thought Tweet #732
- Do you ask the right questions about your problems?
- Thought Tweet #731
- Thought Tweet #730
- Thought Tweet #729
- I'm no Economist...
- Thought Tweet #728
- How do we develop Bad Habits?
- Thought Tweet #727
- Thought Tweet #726
- Thought Tweet #725
- Let's not point fingers at Ontario energy policy
- Thought Tweet #724
- The Telephone-Tag Solution
- Thought Tweet #723
- Leaders...Talk about Change!...There's a mob out there!
- Thought Tweet #722
- Thought Tweet #721
- Thought Tweet #720
- A Different Way to Look at D.I.S.C. personalities
- Thought Tweet #719
- Thought Tweet #718
- 7 Suggestions
- Thought Tweet #717
- Thought Tweet #716
- Yellow is not my favourite colour!
- Thought Tweet #715
- Thought Tweet #714
- Looking out for #1
- Hunters & Thinkers
- Thought Tweet #712
- Anyone can give a damn about other people in business
- Thought Tweet #711
- Thought Tweet #710
- Some people shovel horse manure
- Thought Tweet #709
- Creativity at Waterloo
- Creativity & Invention: Building on the Differences
- Thought Tweet #708
- Thick Skulls & Thin Skin
- Thought Tweet #707
- Thought Tweet #706
- Thought Tweet #705
- Thought Tweet #704
- When Emotional work gets too heavy, we cry out for help.
- Where would you draw the line on workplace conflicts?
- Thought Tweet #703
- Thought Tweet #702
- Don't Give Ideas the Brake, Give Ideas a Break
- Thought Tweet #701
- Thought Tweet #700
- There is no Magic Formula For Hiring
- Thought Tweet #699
- Thought Tweet #698
- Businesses should not have Mission Statements.
- Thought Tweet #697
- The Power of a Story
- Thought Tweet #696
- Family Business Success Story - Knapp Fasteners
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: We work to create freedom for stakeholders...so they can accomplish what they want in their lives."
- Thought Tweet #695
- Thought Tweet #694
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: CEO - "We take something we believe in and provide it to people that need it...that feels good."
- Taking Curiosity to Creativity
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: CEO's views - "The local economy seems to be pretty good." & “Looks like a good Spring.”
- Thought Tweet #693
- What is more important- A great business idea or a great team?
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Entrepreneurs like influencing destiny, maintaining lifestyle & feeling good about work.
- Thought Tweet #692
- Thought Tweet #691
- The Danger in Negative Feedback
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Family-Business CEO - "I like my family, fabricating, the time-money combination & the flexibility."
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: CEO - "I do what I do because I like to build from the ground to completion...and I enjoy people."
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A CEO said, "When we talk about our culture, we need make sure we don't regurgitate 'marketing speak'."
- Shared Perceptions = Better Business Results
- Thought Tweet #690
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A CEO said, "We got into this business because we care about the environment and we believe in our product."
- Are leaders born or created?
- Thought Tweet #689
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: [Using a 1-to-10 Scale written survey] How important is it that people feel good at work? CEOs say 9.5!
- Thought Tweet #688
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Congratulations to our award-winning P2P CEOs: Doug @ Xylotek, Tracey @ Traces Screen Printing, Ted @ MTE, & Michael @ ODG!
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: I like to fix messy situations...just fixing them and not wasting time on "who screwed up".
- Thought Tweet #687
- Do we need to suppress our emotions at work?
- Leaders & Managers - What's The Difference?
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: People want to create value.
- Thought Tweet #686
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: You can't coach heart.
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Don't apologize for technical mistakes - apologize for the effort shortfall!
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A Leader's Advice: make a lot of mistakes, learn a lot from them, & want to pass on the lessons.
- Mastering Commander's Intent
- Thought Tweet #685
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: People only feel "part of the team" after they have contributed good work.
- Thought Tweet #684
- Do you want your people to be more creative?
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: We have 40-year client relationships; businesses only exist to solve others' problems.
- Thought Tweet #683
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Our business exists to keep other businesses running. Our Purpose - Do Good, Do Well, Serve Others.
- Thought Tweet #682
- Helping business people double their performance
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A CEO said, "We exist because there are problems in business & in building teams."
- Aligning Perceptions To Get Results
- Thought Tweet #681
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: "I get a thrill out of being in a meeting and helping solve difficult problems."
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: CDN government is slowing down spend by adding another layer of review to procurement.
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: "We tried it years ago and it didn't work." [AN EXAMPLE OF THE WRONG WAY TO THINK]
- Thought Tweet #680
- Thought Tweet #679
- A new-and-improved picture of Leadership Priorities
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Leaders should embrace the idea of coaching their people; talking about learning from failures.
- How to Compete & Succeed
- Thought Tweet #678
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: New Canadians are delivering results at work.
- Thought Tweet #677
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Leaders need to teach 3 things: common sense, innovation, & accountability.
- Thought Tweet #676
- Larry Smith visits our Centre For Family Business [CFFB]
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: If you've always been given stuff you will never learn how to measure excellent work.
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: For Innovation: you have to celebrate failure...we need to teach young people how to fail.
- Notes on John C. Maxwell's advice about Focus
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Have we made it too easy for incoming workers? New workers need to prove themselves.
- Thought Tweet #675
- Is your gross margin growing?
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Put significant effort into retaining your clients; do 'delicate daisy' analyses regularly
- Thought Tweet #674
- Support, Educate & Energize
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: There are so many demands on small businesses; training may get placed on the back burner.
- Thought Tweet #673
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A local CEO confirms, "Construction on farmland is booming."
- Thought Tweet #672
- Business Leaders Need to Stop De-Motivating Their People
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: About Economic Forecasts: Vancouver and Toronto reports & forecasts don't fit our Region.
- Thought Tweet #671
- 3 Energizing Ideas
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: One local CEO says, "The new-home market got off to a good start this year."
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Consider ex- Canadian Armed Forces people...they offer strong leadership skills.
- My Business - a communication tool for business partners
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: You cannot negotiate Values, they are your fabric.
- Picture Your Strength
- Thought Tweet #670
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: One of our local CEOs is able to say, "We have 7 Values we fall back on in case you have questions."
- Right Butts, Right Buses, Right Seats, & Right Tasks
- Thought Tweet #669
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: A good question business Leaders should ask, "Help me understand __________________."
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: After an employer provides 'work-education', everyone shares the responsibility for learning & doing.
- Thought Tweet #668
- Routine & not-Routine Tasks - Treat Them Different Ways!
- New Binoculars Help You See Eye-to-Eye
- Thought Tweet #667
- Thought Tweet #666
- Separating Routine & not-Routine Work-Tasks
- Thought Tweet #665
- Let's Turn This Problem Into Opportunity
- 2 Ways to Inject Value Into Your Business
- Thought Tweet #664
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: TRUST - without it, there is no truth in business.
- Thought Tweet #663
- Squeezing Value Out of Each & Every Workday
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: TRUST - if you don’t have trust at your organization it is pretty difficult to discern what’s real.
- Thought Tweet #662
- Thought Tweet #661
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Just listening...not making pre-conceived judgements…keeping an open mind…that’s my challenge.
- At the Core of Spirited Leaders' Philosophy
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Talk with people about their strengths…some have difficulty with details yet excel at generating ideas.
- Thought Tweet #660
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: If you take your Mission statement, apply it to your competition and it fits…you got it wrong.
- When should business leaders seek "outside help"?
- Thought Tweet #659
- @GKWCC #CEOP2P: Some of us were brought up thinking if it is a “touchy-feely” thing then it cannot be measured.
- 7 Strong Action Steps
- Thought Tweet #658
- @GKWCC #P2P: Spend 2 minutes every meeting talking about your Vision, or Values…the invisible drivers of your culture.
- Jim Beretta visits our Centre For Family Business [CFFB]
- Thought Tweet #657
- @GKWCC #P2P: Our staff wrote the Vision statement for our family-owned business…what we do and how we approach clients.
- Thought Tweet #656
- @GKWCC #P2P: To be believed, Vision & Mission statements have to be relevant…and concise.
- @GKWCC #P2P: We cannot let ‘the past’ or ‘habits’ hold us back.
- @GKWCC #P2P: Business culture is about common values – not 1 person’s – identify & express where your values really are.
- Thought Tweet #655
- @GKWCC #P2P: As you introduce changes, make sure your staff knows your reasons, “communicate the Why”.
- Taking a more-creative approach to business problems
- Thought Tweet #654
- @GKWCC #P2P: Things are changing so much faster…leaders need to explore new ways.
- About customer loyalty...seeking a simple measurement
- @GKWCC #P2P: People sometimes focus on price because they are uninformed about other aspects of your product/service.
- Thought Tweet #653
- Aimplification
- @GKWCC #P2P: For CEOs - it's all about trust & relationship-building...for many others, this seems to be forgotten.
- Thought Tweet #652
- @GKWCC #P2P: A CEO thought - You're really not investing in strategies, you're investing in people who have ideas!
- Thought Tweet #651
- @GKWCC #P2P: Website FAQs can back-fire - people have unique questions & they want to talk with people!
- @GKWCC #P2P: CEOs - your website delivers the 1st impression, so use it as a sales tool & make 'people-contact' easy.
- Thought Tweet #650
- @GKWCC #P2P: A CEO thought about tech companies - few are able to articulate their 'difference'...their 'main message'.
- Thought Tweet #649
- @GKWCC #P2P: From the CEO's perspective - time is more important than money!
- About not-Routine work
- @GKWCC #P2P: CEOs see polarization - people offering too-low, unprofitable pricing...this is not good & not sustainable!
- Thought Tweet #648
- @GKWCC #P2P Thought Post
- Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas
- Thought Tweet #647
- Thought Tweet #646
- Thought Tweet #645
- Making the Best of Your Situations
- What Was I Thinking!
- Thought Tweet #644
- Thought Tweet #643
- Thought Tweet #642
2012 (421)
- 2013 - a good year for Bakers
- Thought Tweet #641
- Thought Tweet #640
- Straightforward Sales Steps
- Thought Tweet #639
- Getting the People part right
- Thought Tweet #638
- Thought Tweet #637
- Thought Tweet #636
- Thirsty Goals
- Thought Tweet #635
- About prospecting for Clients
- The END OF THE WORLD will not happen tomorrow
- Thought Tweet #634
- Thought Tweet #633
- Thought Tweet #632
- So you think you have INSIGHT...
- Thought Tweet #631
- A Picture of Leadership Priorities
- Thought Tweet #630
- Thought Tweet #629
- Figuring People Out?
- Thought Tweet #628
- Thought Tweet #627
- What's New?
- Thought Tweet #626
- Thought Tweet #625
- No more racking our brains
- Thought Tweet #624
- Getting process right - how important is that?
- Thought Tweet #623
- Thought Tweet #622
- Are you positively charged?
- Thought Tweet #621
- Thought Tweet #620
- The wrinkle in customer complaints
- 10 hours on the treadmill for every game of golf
- Thought Tweet #619
- Thought Tweet #618
- How do people react when you get angry or aggressive at work?
- Thought Tweet #617
- Thought Tweet #616
- Thought Tweet #615
- People & Process - 10 Recommendations
- Thought Tweet #614
- A tribute to JFK
- Thought Tweet #613
- Thought Tweet #612
- Who is responsible for your work Situation?
- Thought Tweet #611
- Thought Tweet #610
- A Formula for Personal Strengths
- Thought Tweet #609
- Body Language & Work Performance
- Thought Tweet #608
- Don't shoot for the moon
- Thought Tweet #607
- Thought Tweet #606
- Thought Tweet #605
- Thought Tweet #604
- Successful local businesses
- Thought Tweet #603
- Alligator Shoos
- Thought Tweet #602
- Thought Tweet #601
- Thought Tweet #600
- Building Strengths Into Business
- New Things Energize
- Thought Tweet #599
- Thought Tweet #598
- Thought Tweet #597
- If it's the last thing I do I'm gonna change that person!
- Thought Tweet #596
- Thought Tweet #595
- 80% of people are not engaged at work.
- Thought Tweet #594
- Change: should you take it personally?
- Thought Tweet #593
- What a Negative Mob out there!
- Thought Tweet #592
- Thought Tweet #591
- Born to learn
- Thought Tweet #590
- Thought Tweet #589
- Begin with the Start in Mind
- Thought Tweet #588
- Thought Post #587
- Controlling for New - the Power in New Things
- Thought Tweet #586
- Thought Tweet #585
- Thought Tweet #584
- Simply put - Leaders Must Change!
- Thought Tweet #583
- Mark Weber visited our Centre For Family Business ... our 2012/2013 kick-off event
- Thought Tweet #582
- Thought Tweet #581
- Thought Tweet #580
- Thought Tweet #579
- How to get off a Business Roller Coaster
- Achieving Business Goals
- Thought Tweet #578
- Thought Tweet #577
- Stretch in the direction of your Strengths
- Thought Tweet #576
- Optimistic to a fault...
- Thought Tweet #575
- Thought Tweet #574
- ...with best Intentions...
- Thought Tweet #573
- Thought Tweet #572
- About Your Business - Strong? Smart? Both?
- Thought Tweet #571
- Thought Tweet #570
- Thought Tweet #569
- One plus One plus One minus One equals Zero
- Thought Tweet #568
- Thought Tweet #567
- How To Increase Profits
- Thought Tweet #566
- Accurate? One of the inherent flaws in the minds of nearly all salespeople is something resembling an inferiority complex.
- Thought Tweet #565
- Layering On Business Achievement
- Thought Tweet #564
- Thought Tweet #563
- Thought Tweet #562
- A bit about Puts & Calls
- Thought Tweet #561
- Thought Tweet #560
- The Blades of Confusion Cut Deep
- Thought Tweet #559
- Thought Tweet #558
- Thought Tweet #557
- Driven to Construction
- Thought Tweet #556
- Thought Tweet #555
- A recruiting test that LASTS
- Thought Tweet #554
- Change, Criticism, Caring, & Candor
- Thought Tweet #553
- Some Thoughts on Business Leadership
- Thought Tweet #552
- Thought Tweet #551
- Thought Tweet #550
- Thought Tweet #549
- Herd Mentality - The Beastly Side of People
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #15
- Thought Tweet #548
- Thought Tweet #547
- How To Develop Better Work Habits
- Thought Tweet #546
- Thought Tweet #545
- Thought Tweet #544
- Entrepreneurial Dilemma
- Thought Tweet #543
- Thought Tweet #542
- Manufacturing Sector Contracts: what you don't know...
- Thought Tweet #541
- Thought Tweet #540
- Thought Tweet #539
- What Sales Managers Want
- Thought Tweet #538
- Seven well-kept secrets on...How To Maintain A Closed Mind
- Thought Tweet #537
- Thought Tweet #536
- Thought Tweet #535
- Thought Tweet #534
- If you don't get significantly more productivity per employee, you will be out of business
- Thought Tweet #533
- Thought Tweet #532
- Selling is the horse that pulls the cart of business.
- Thought Tweet #531
- Thought Tweet #530
- Let's push off these economic doldrums
- Thought Tweet #529
- Is it time you fixed your voice-mail message?
- Thought Tweet #528
- Thought Tweet #527
- Bad Signals & Signs of Existing and Impending Business Problems
- Thought Tweet #526
- Thought Tweet #525
- The Attention Dilemma
- Thought Tweet #524
- Thought Tweet #523
- Mistakes I have made buying and selling businesses
- A New Wave of Sales Philosophy...or is it?
- Thought Tweet #522
- Thought Tweet #521
- Thought Tweet #520
- Repeating business errors: defying common sense
- Thought Tweet #519
- Thought Tweet #518
- Thought Tweet #517
- Symptoms of recession-ridden businesses
- Thought Tweet #516
- Thought Tweet #515
- Removing the blur of Social Media
- Thought Tweet #514
- Thought Tweet #513
- People are so astonishingly different
- Thought Tweet #512
- Thought Tweet #511
- Thought Tweet #510
- Can You See The Future?
- Thought Tweet #509
- Putting Your Power of Will to Work
- Thought Tweet #508
- Thought Tweet #507
- The Need to Do Better Business...call it Spirited Business
- Thought Tweet #506
- Thought Tweet #505
- The Force of Personality
- Thought Tweet #504
- Thought Tweet #503
- Social Media Confusion
- Thought Tweet #502
- Chapter 6
- Thought Tweet #501
- Thought Tweet #500
- It only takes 3 little improvements
- Thought Tweet #499
- The Convergence of Physics, Philosophy, & Metaphysics
- Thought Tweet #498
- Chapter 5
- Thought Tweet #497
- Thought Tweet #496
- Thought Tweet #495
- An Introduction to Time Management - Part 4
- Thought Tweet #494
- Thought Tweet #493
- To Improve Your Capacity to Learn
- Chapter 4
- Thought Tweet #492
- Thought Tweet #491
- Thought Post #490
- Here's a way to develop better judgment
- Thought Tweet #489
- Structure: the double-edged sword
- Thought Tweet #488
- Thought Tweet #487
- Chapter 3
- Thought Tweet #486
- Thought Tweet #485
- Take The Time-Out To Think...
- Thought Tweet #484
- Thought Tweet #483
- Geordie Raine visits our Centre For Family Business [CFFB]
- Chapter 2
- Thought Tweet #482
- Thought Tweet #481
- Thought Tweet #480
- Thought Tweet #479
- Power of Will - Fact or Fiction?
- Handling Tough Situations
- Thought Tweet #478
- Chapter 1
- Thought Tweet #477
- Thought Tweet #476
- Thought Tweet #475
- Written Goals = More Success...Yes? or No?
- Thought Tweet #474
- Don't children have a high opinion of themselves!
- Thought Tweet #473
- Self-Control: The Battlefield
- Thought Tweet #472
- Thought Tweet #471
- Thought Tweet #470
- Thought Tweet #469
- Inspiring & Empowering People
- Competing - using a Value-Based Price strategy
- Thought Tweet #468
- Your retirement and your stakeholders
- Thought Tweet #467
- Thought Tweet #466
- Thought Tweet #465
- An Introduction to Time Management - Part 3
- Thought Tweet #464
- An Introduction to Time Management - Part 2
- Thought Tweet #463
- An Introduction to Time Management - Part 1
- Thought Tweet #462
- Thought Tweet #461
- Thought Tweet #460
- The Big Value in Small Change
- Thought Tweet #459
- Saying No to Passion in the Workplace
- Thought Tweet #458
- Nurture + Demand = Progress
- Thought Tweet #457
- Thought Tweet #456
- Titanic Courage
- Thought Tweet #455
- How to Build Self-Confidence - #2
- Thought Tweet #454
- ATTENTION! [a simple way to develop that skill] - Part 2
- Thought Tweet #453
- Thought Tweet #452
- ATTENTION! [a simple way to develop that skill] - Part 1
- Thought Tweet #451
- Thought Tweet #450
- Principle-based Leadership
- Tom Deans visits our Centre For Family Business (CFFB)
- Thought Tweet #449
- Ratna Omidvar visits our Region of Waterloo Immigrant Civic Participation - Dialogue on Diversity
- Thought Tweet #448
- Process Blankets Provide Comfort
- Thought Tweet #447
- Thought Tweet #446
- Thought Tweet #445
- About Self-Management
- Family Business Success Story - Menno S. Martin
- Thought Tweet #444
- So, You Want More Control...Do You?
- Thought Tweet #443
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #14
- Thought Tweet #442
- Thought Tweet #441
- About Needs & Wants
- Thought Tweet #440
- 27,000 People wonder...What's In It For Me?
- Thought Tweet #439
- Courage - a discussion of 3 Standards
- Thought Tweet #438
- 10 Reasons Why You Should Not Volunteer for Difficult Tasks
- Thought Tweet #437
- Thought Tweet #436
- Thought Tweet #435
- Thought Tweet #434
- Family Business Success Story - Flanagan Foodservice Inc.
- Thought Tweet #433
- Setting Sales GOALS
- Thought Tweet #432
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #13
- Thought Tweet #431
- Thought Tweet #430
- About Energy
- Thought Tweet #429
- Should You be in a Sales role?
- Thought Tweet #428
- How to get People to like you even better - #1
- Thought Tweet #427
- "Time" Management
- Thought Tweet #426
- Thought Tweet #425
- Mark Weber visited our Centre For Family Business again
- Thought Tweet #424
- Boil Down Your Business
- Thought Tweet #423
- Improving Management Reporting
- Thought Tweet #422
- CHANGE...why it's like pulling teeth
- Thought Tweet #421
- Thought Tweet #420
- Thought Tweet #419
- About Napoleon Bonaparte and the 'thought-force'
- Thought Tweet #418
- LEADERS - as defined by Deepak Chopra
- Thought Tweet #417
- Spirited Definitions
- Thought Tweet #416
- Thought Tweet #415
- Getting Present
- Thought Tweet #414
- Social Media - getting more than you pay for
- Thought Tweet #413
- Process - Uncrushing Creativity
- Thought Tweet #412
- Plan Your Work & Work Your Plan
- Thought Tweet #411
- Thought Tweet #410
- Know Negativity
- Thought Tweet #409
- An Economic Forecast
- Thought Tweet #408
- Talk About PRESSURE
- Thought Tweet #407
- Measurement of Meaningful Things
- Thought Tweet #406
- Thought Tweet #405
- About GOALS
- Thought Tweet #404
- INITIATIVE...TAKE IT!
- Thought Tweet #403
- How to Build Self-Confidence - #1
- Thought Tweet #402
- Invigorating Imagination & Vivid Vision
- Thought Tweet #401
- Inwords.
- Thought Tweet #400
- Do you have a "SELLING PURPOSE"?
- Thought Tweet #399
- Inspire People - Grow Profits!
- Thought Tweet #398
- What to do when Confidence slips
- Thought Tweet #397
- Thought Tweet #396
- What does CHANGE mean to you?
- Thought Tweet #395
- Finding the forest around the trees
- Thought Tweet #394
- When your propeller stops turning...
- Thought Tweet #393
- Wages in the world of work
- Thought Tweet #392
- Thought Tweet #391
- Some Questions about DELIVERS
- Thought Tweet #390
- Plucky & Pithy...#2!
- Thought Tweet #389
- Change or Die
- Thought Tweet #388
- Mentoring
- Thought Tweet #387
- Thought Tweet #386
- This is guaranteed to get your ATTENTION!
- Thought Tweet #385
- Your Feelings & Your Bottom Line
- Thought Tweet #384
- Do Family Business People Have Better Work Ethic?
- Thought Tweet #383
- Blinded by our own Brilliance
- Thought Tweet #382
2011 (308)
- Hello. How do you do?
- Thought Tweet #380
- If you could travel in time...
- Do you have what it takes to DELIVERS?
- Thought Tweet #377
- Thought Tweet #376
- Time for Learning!
- Character & Courage
- How Successful People Act
- Emotions - Defined - Positive & Negative
- Thought Tweet #371
- Tonic for Toxic Business
- Thought Tweet #370
- Positive Mental Attitude - Defined
- Thought Tweet #369
- Frisbee Business
- Thought Tweet #368
- Communitech's Iain Klugman visits our Centre For Family Business ["CFFB"]
- Thought Tweet #367
- Thought Tweet #366
- When I think about the future...
- Thought Tweet #365
- How much must YOU CHANGE to realize your dreams?
- Thought Tweet #364
- Strengths & Weaknesses
- Thought Tweet #363
- Having Values, Delivering Value, & Recruiting Great People
- Thought Tweet #362
- 10 Tips to Running Scared
- Thought Tweet #361
- The Master Rules - Part 2
- Thought Tweet #360
- The Master Rules - Part 1
- Thought Tweet #359
- Auftragstaktik [Commander's Intent]
- Thought Tweet #358
- Here's a question for you...
- Thought Tweet #357
- Thought Tweet #356
- The Wonderful World of Sales
- Thought Tweet #355
- 'Being Evocative'...that's the new Starting Point
- Thought Tweet #354
- In the Clutch of Ideas
- Thought Tweet #353
- Baby Steps
- Thought Tweet #352
- Thought Tweet #351
- Entrepreneur - Defined
- Thought Tweet #350
- Emotions - Defined
- Thought Tweet #349
- Defining A Goal
- Thought Tweet #348
- Robin Todd visits our Centre for Family Business [CFFB] - “Confessions of a Bad Boss”
- Thought Tweet #347
- Thought Tweet #346
- Why should I buy from you?
- Thought Tweet #345
- Making Change
- Thought Tweet #344
- About Spirited Leaders & our Unicorn logo
- Thought Tweet #343
- Business people are struggling with Networking
- Thought Tweet #342
- An unbelievable ‘selling’ experience
- Sales Tweet #340
- My Uncle Jack’s Plus-Minus Theory
- Sales Tweet #339
- Buried Treasures – Inspired Measures
- Sales Tweet #338
- What are your Intentions?
- Sales Tweet #337
- the Transporter of your messages
- Business Problems…Will $ help?
- Sales Tweet #334
- Doing - things right, right things, & less things
- Situations
- Sales Tweet #332
- Michelangelo’s magnificent 'David'
- From Dire Straits to Great
- Constructive Criticism: that’s definitely an oxymoron
- Sales Tweet #328
- Getting the right people on your bus
- Why some people - or is it most people - react that way
- How do you feel when you are at work?
- WHAT DO YOU WANT?
- Sales Tweet #323
- You are about to be attacked…
- Douglas Porter of BMO visits our CFFB
- The joy embedded in ‘work worth doing’
- If you feel people are not listening to you…
- Sales Tweet #318
- 4 ways to kill a good idea
- Sales Tweet #317
- Sales Tweet #315
- Too much batter on your business ideas?
- Sales Tweet #314
- Were you born to Inspire Action?
- Sales Tweet #313
- Business Only Contains 3 Things: People, Process, & Situations
- Genes, Optimism, & Pessimism
- Business Leaders should help their followers
- Sales Tweets #308
- Magnetic Personalities
- Sales Tweets #307
- GOOD NEWS ABOUT BUILDING GOOD HABITS
- STOP CRITICIZING PEOPLE!
- Sales Tweets #303
- Thick Skin & Thin Skull…and Lies
- People lie…get over it!
- Sales Tweets #299
- You want to make some changes at your business
- Sales Tweets #298
- A Note to Leaders: About What Followers Want
- Sales Tweets #294
- Work: Do You Feel Good About it? - #2
- Sales Tweets #293
- Abe Lincoln
- BUSINESS CONTAINS ONLY 3 THINGS:
- Sales Tweets #289
- Work: Do You Feel Good About It? - #1
- Sales Tweets #288
- About Master Mind Alliances
- Spirited Leaders BUSINESS PATHS
- Sales Tweets #284
- The Leader, alone, is responsible for the Paths to Business Success
- Sales Tweets #283
- Feel Better – Inspire People – Grow Profits
- Sales Tweet #281
- Sales Tweet #280
- CONFIDENCE IS KEY
- Sales Tweet #278
- People Behave like Riders on Elephants on Paths
- People’s Weaknesses Don’t Build
- The Art of Good Questions
- Sales Tweet #274
- If it ain’t broken then…
- Sales Tweet #273
- Crank Up Your Leadership Strengths
- Change is Constructive Only When People are Comfortable
- Feel that Ooze of Abundance
- The K.I.S.L. Principle
- The Joys of a Thick Skin & a Thin Skull
- Sales Tweet #267
- Neither Donate Nor Collect Negativity
- Is our way of thinking affected by our personality?
- Sales Tweet #265
- Sales Meeting – Agenda or No Agenda?
- Sales Tweet #264
- Measuring Emotions & Feelings
- Our Changing Brains
- “Running the Business Run”
- Human All Too Human
- When you struggle to collect accounts receivable
- Sales Tweet #258
- Constructive Criticism is an Oxymoron
- Sales Tweet #257
- The Facts of Lies
- Mind CONTROL
- TRUST THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SERVICE
- Sales Tweet #251
- Start
- Habits are like rivers
- MARVEL & THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE
- Do you believe in the concept "Mastermind"?
- Sales Tweet #244
- Long-term business relationships
- Sales Tweet #243
- About business development Excellence – Hunters & Farmers & Others
- Doubters don’t build!
- Sales Tweet #239
- Don’t push Elephants…
- About business development Excellence…
- Sales Tweet #237
- Clients’ Clients philosophy
- Sales Tweet #234
- Make your business life easier…
- Then my sales guy says to me…
- Sales Tweet #232
- The Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce celebrates 125 years of business leadership.
- Sales Tweet #230
- Sales Tweet #229
- There is no scarcity of Scarcity Mindset
- Talents
- Sales Tweet #227
- Brain neuroplasticity: is it overrated?
- Do you feel that fear of failure can effectively motivate?
- Sales Tweet #224
- General Rick Hillier visits Waterloo Region Home Builders Association
- DO NOT tell me what to do!
- Sales Tweet #222
- ACRES of SUCCESS
- Sales Tweet #220
- Striving, Driving, & Relating
- Strategic Planning – Who should bother?
- Sales Tweet #218
- Ernest Seller’s first Thought Post
- Sales Tweet #217
- Keep Your Energy Dry
- Sales Tweet #214
- David Wood visits our Centre For Family Business
- About Entrepreneurs
- Sales Tweet #212
- Getting to the Essence of things – Part #1
- Strategic Planning – Why Bother!
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #12
- Let’s get rid of Scarcity Mindset
- Stop And Think
- Not Key Success Factors – Key Success Rules
- Personal Values: your little Panel of Judges
- Problems still confound the motivational experts
- Little Voices, ANTs, Biases, and Robbins
- BHAGs ain’t for everyone!
- Sales Tweet #198
- Time, Self & Action Management
- Sales Tweet #197
- One of those Synchronicities
- Sales Tweet #194
- Some thoughts about ‘Fake Work’
- Sales Tweet #193
- The ancient Egyptians threw away their brains
- Sales Tweet #191
- Edward de Bono – an amazing thinker
- Sales Tweet #189
- Do you hire Lieutenant Columbo or Sherlock Holmes for your sales role?
- about the way we think
- Sales Tweet #187
- About entrepreneurial styles
- Sales Tweet #186
- Laziness
- Sales Tweet #184
- Entrepreneurs must click with other people
- Sales Tweet #183
- Entrepreneurs must know about people strengths
- Sales Tweet #182
- Entrepreneurs must be able to lead change
- Sales Tweet #179
- A Social Media question
- Entrepreneurship Highs & Entrepreneurship Lows
- Sales Tweet #177
- Competing – using a low-Price strategy
- Mark Weber visits our Centre For Family Business
- Sales Tweet #174
- work at Work? or work at Home?
- Many businesses struggle because…
- Sales Tweet #172
- Sales Tweet #171
- Positive Attitude & Genius: definitions
- OK – we get it – building relationships is a good thing…but How? - Part 1
- Sales Tweet #169
- The Power Of and the Problem With Thinking
- Stress & emotional resilience – Part 1
- Sales Tweet #167
- Your brain needs the proper amount of sleep
- Sales Tweet #165
- Humour in the workplace
- Sales Tweet #164
- no carrots, no sticks…no donkeys
- Sales Tweet #162
- Our Brains: from Good to Great – Part 1
- Motivation, Manipulation, and Leadership: definitions
- The Art of Introducing a Speaker – Part 1
- Family Business Success Story – Pioneer Craftsmen
- Am I a salesperson?
- Sales Tweet #158
- A CEO does only three things
- Sales Tweet #156
- Innovation & Brainstorming – Tom Kelley’s approach
- Put Your Best Brain Forward
- Allison Graham visits our Centre For Family Business
- The Perfect Pitch
- Sales Tweet #153
- Sales Tweet #152
- Similarity is a powerful thing
- Barry’s Corner - Long-term sustainable relationships
- Sales Tweet #149
- Mini-Message - About Communicating
- Leaders & Vivid Vision – #3
- Sales Tweet #147
- ‘Flexible Rightsizing’
- Sales Tweet #145
- Maybe your boss is wrong!
- Mini-Message - About Personal Values
- Leaders & Vivid Vision – #2
- Sales Tweet #142
- Sales Tweet #140
- The Rise & Fall of the Irrational Investor
- Mini-Message - Spirited Leaders Motto
- Leaders & Vivid Vision - #1
- Sales Tweet #136
- What 3 pieces of advice would you give to ‘young people’?
- Mini-Message - Problem Solving
- Sales Tweet #133
- Values & Personal Values – our definition
- Sales Tweet #132
- Eckhart Tolle…writes about Time
- Sales Tweet #129
- Empowering people for great decisions
- “The Driving Force” - The Leader’s personal Values fuel everything
- Sales Tweet #127
- Sales Tweet #126
- Sales Tweet #125
- About Time
- Stephen Covey - The 8th Habit
- Sales Tweet #123
- P=2S+O…and Brian Tracy’s 7 Steps to Effective Problem Solving
- Sales Tweet #122
2010 (201)
- Seeking Simple & subtracting before adding
- Sales Tweet #117
- Sales Tweet #116
- The Value of Good Behaviour
- About Relevant Brands
- Keep an eye on your Human Resource gaps
- Sales Tweet #110
- How would you describe your personality?
- Sales Tweet #109
- The value of not thinking
- Collecting Accounts Receivable…7 Tips
- Sales Tweet #107
- Sales Tweet #105
- Feel good, look good, be good
- Successful people have more time….sharing another thought
- Sales Tweet #103
- How can you be sure your company delivers Value to its Clients?
- Sales Tweet #102
- Sales Tweet #100
- Confidence…a definition and more
- Sales Tweet #99
- How to deal with people when their egos seem to be out of control
- On the realistic side of optimism
- Sales Tweet #97
- Sales Tweet #96
- Sales Tweet #95
- There are 3 types of business development
- Think About Your Clients’ Clients
- Sales Tweet #93
- To bcc or not to bcc, that is the question
- Sales Tweet #92
- Defining Integrity
- Sales Tweet #89
- Plucky & Pithy
- Sales Tweet #88
- People We Know, Fate, & Power of Will
- Sales Tweet #86
- Sales Tweet #84
- Credibility and your Marquee Clients
- Sales Tweet #83
- Family business thoughts
- Sales Tweet #82
- New People = Opportunities
- Sales Tweet #79
- Factors that influence how we think and what we do
- Sales Tweet #78
- Yes - people do bring their Values with them
- Sales Tweet #76
- Family Business Success Story - Wright Landscape Services
- Sales Tweet #74
- Believing it makes it true
- Sales Tweet #73
- Beginning to Answer Rhonda’s question…”About Time”
- Sales Tweet #71
- Sales Tweet #70
- Procrastinate For Success
- For Fully-Productive Meetings
- Sales Tweet #68
- People’s Strengths
- Sales Tweet #67
- Sales Tweet #65
- More Suggestions for Compelling Presentations
- Sales Tweet #64
- Networking & The Strength of Weak Links
- Sales Tweet #63
- Successful People Have More Time
- Sales Tweet #62
- Barry’s Corner - Why focus on strengths?
- Sales Tweet #59
- Using R.A.D.A.R. to succeed at complex sales
- Did you ever wonder… - #2
- Sales Tweet #57
- Sales Tweet #55
- Your Customer's Brain is 100,000 Years Old
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #11
- Sales Tweet #53
- Sticky SUCCESs
- Sales Tweet #52
- Sales Tweet #50
- it’s about Ptime well spent
- Maximizing your creative energy - #1
- Sales Tweet #48
- The Art of Questioning #2
- Sales Tweet #46
- Don’t let your messages fall from all those ears
- Sales Tweet #44
- How you can improve your sales performance
- Sales Tweet #43
- You probably suffer from Knowledge Overconfidence
- Sales Tweet #41
- 4 Good Samaritans at Waterloo
- Obvious Adams & the Five Tests of Obviousness
- Sales Tweet #38
- Snakes and Ladders…and Entitlement
- Sales Tweet #37
- The Art of Questioning - #1
- Sales Tweet #34
- Thank You: Celebrating my 100th Waterloo MIN Blog
- A Family Business Success Story – Stemmler’s
- Sales Tweet #32
- Sales Tweet #31
- Sales Tweet #30
- The Marketing & Sales Picture
- Don’t put the cart before the horse... - Part 1
- Sales Tweet #28
- The Art of Recruiting - #2
- Sales Tweet #27
- Sales Tweet #25
- Strategic first, creative when necessary, and always specific
- Stories & Questions
- Sales Tweet #23
- The Art of Recruiting - #1
- Sales Tweet #22
- An argument on the sequence of strategic planning work
- Sales Tweet #19
- More about breeding passion at our workplaces
- Sales Tweet #18
- The qualities of a good website
- Sales Tweet #16
- How to Give a Damn Good Speech
- Sales Tweet #14
- How a leader can help to change people's attitudes and behaviour
- Knowledge Is (Not) Power
- Sales Tweet #10
- A Definition of Integrity
- Sales Tweet #9
- Roles in Business…what Gerber & Covey have taught
- Sales Tweet #8
- A Contrarian Thought on Creativity
- Sales Tweet #7
- Sales Tweet #6
- Sales Tweet #5
- Business Premises Statements – The Starting Point for Strategic Planning
- Sales Tweet #4
- Trust paves the path for Passion in the Workplace
- Sales Tweet #3
- On Governance…
- Sales Tweet #2
- Sales Tweet #1
- To succeed in Sales I need…
- Simplicity, Complexity, Simplexity, & Complicity
- Secrets from the BRAIN
- About Writing a Business Plan…a note to a friend
- Did you ever wonder…
- Innovation & Creativity
- Assertive Curiosity – Igniting Passion at our workplace
- Here’s a way to build passion into our workplace
- How to get your business humming
- People Networking…Succeeding in the 21st Century #5
- Do family businesses have better values?
- Should we badmouth our competition?
- People Networking…Succeeding in the 21st Century #4
- Too busy to be great at what you do?
- Marketing by Avalanche
- People Networking…Succeeding in the 21st Century #3
- People Networking…Succeeding in the 21st Century #2
- People Networking…Succeeding in the 21st Century #1
- Manufacturing: Adaptability, Excellence, Attitude…and Passion
- Waterloo Manufacturing Innovation Network (MIN)
- Creating Positive Change: Riders, their Elephants, & their Paths
- Found Online: Building Your Online Strategy For 2010
- Canada 3.0/2010
- P=2S+O…and Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
- How To - Pitch Your Business Idea
- STOP THE PRESSES! #7
- STOP THE PRESSES! #6
- STOP THE PRESSES! #5
- STOP THE PRESSES! #4
- STOP THE PRESSES! #3
- STOP THE PRESSES! #2
- STOP THE PRESSES! #1
- Executive BrainSmarts
- Building A Quality Attitude
- 7 Ways to Turn Problems into Opportunities
- Networking: A letter to local business leaders
- Emergent Change
- 10 Rules for Building a Great Organization
- Some Ideas About Optimism
- Seeking Simple
- 21 Words for the 21st Century
- I have some good news for you
- Do you hear what I’m saying?
- A Thought About Networking
- Compelling Presentations
- Mr. Magoo would have made a good salesman
- To agree or not to agree, that is the question
- Corporate Culture Matters
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #10
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #9
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #8
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #7
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #6
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #5
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #4
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #3
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #2
- CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #1
- 7 Powerful Answers - #8
- 7 Powerful Answers - #7
- 7 Powerful Answers - #6
- 7 Powerful Answers - #5
2009 (24)
- 7 Powerful Answers - #4
- 7 Powerful Answers - #3
- 7 Powerful Answers - #2
- 7 Powerful Answers - #1
- eCRMine© - #2
- eCRMine© - #1
- Leading With Revenue© - #4
- Leading With Revenue© - #3
- Leading With Revenue© - #2
- Leading With Revenue© - #1
- P=2S+O© - #8
- P=2S+O© - #7
- P=2S+O© - #6
- P=2S+O© - #5
- P=2S+O© - #4
- P=2S+O© - #3
- P=2S+O© - #2
- P=2S+O© - #1
- A Lesson on Cold Calling
- How should we view and analyse a Market Sector?
- Injecting Value - Systemizing Your Business
- An excerpt from a note sent to a business associate
- An Excerpt from a Message Sent to a Friend Today
- The Eighth Step Toward Riches - or - The First Mental Trap?
2008 (12)
- Leading With Revenue
- Courage
- Maybe there is an 'I' in Teamwork?
- Courage - The Key Business Value
- Seeking Simple
- Innovation
- Definitions
- Some thoughts on‘Good to Great’, ‘The Tipping Point’, and Business Start-Up or TurnAhead
- Communication has been a lively topic lately
- Some Thoughts on Energy & Our Economy
- Networking: More Thoughts About the Starting Point – Why?
- Networking: Some Thoughts About The Starting Point - Why?