Insights
Wasting Time
Leaders need time to think, time for people, and time to grow the business. Therefore they should be skilled managers of their own time. If you cannot organize yourself, how can you organize anyone or anything else? ⠀ Administering tha...
Portrait of a Great Thinker
People often think that good thinking has to do with intelligence or the ability to solve a complex math problem or puzzle. I believe that good thinking isn’t just one thing. It consists of several specific thinking skills. And becoming a...
Being Disorganized is a Waste of Time
Take a hard and objective look at your business. Are you constantly pulled from one direction to another? Are you running around like a chicken with its head cut off? Do you wake up in the middle of the night because you just remembered som...
Listen Carefully to Find Subtext
When you listen carefully, you pick up on the subtext, the subtle clues that reveal what is really important to the person. These clues come out as patterns in people’s language, repeated words, concepts, or feelings, or we may even disco...
Describe How your Business Operates
When you put systems in place in your business, you do two things at once. First, you give yourself a break. You offer yourself a fail-safe, something that you can rely on in the event of your brain’s mutiny – occasionally, this happens...
Design Your Own Game Plan
Take a page from Bill Walsh’s book, a former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. He came off as eccentric because of how extensively he planned his plays in advance of each game. Other coaches would respond to plays as the game unfolde...
Accept the People you Cannot Change
Successful people continuously and relentlessly shift. Whether it’s in response to the market or their own goals, high achievers are constantly changing because they know to triumph in any situation, they must always do one thing – shif...
Are your Marketing Efforts Based on These Key Elements?
The first rule of thumb in marketing is: if you’re not going to repeat your message consistently over time, you shouldn’t waste your time and money sending it the first time. A one-shot marketing piece will rarely yield results. It is t...