Success
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Get Your Business Started. What Are You Waiting On?
It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up So you want to start a business. Someday. Someday will come and go and where will your business be? What are you waiting on? You want to get everything set up first?… Continue reading
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Avoid the Career Kiss of Death–Don’t Be A Commodity
Stand Out or Be Out One of the worst things that can happen to you career-wise is for your employer (or potential employers) to see you as interchangable with other people with the same skill set. If they think that… Continue reading
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Your Company Doesn’t Care
Sorry. Despite what the Supreme Court thinks, your company is not a person. It doesn’t care. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t want. You can’t impress it. Your company is made up of people–lots of them. All kinds of people. They DO… Continue reading
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Get Better At Your Job. Now.
How Good Do You Want To Be? What kind of employee do you want to be? What kind of a manager? What kind of a leader? What kind of a boss? What kind of a sales person? What kind of… Continue reading
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Are You Making Mistakes On Purpose?
We all make mistakes. Mistakes have consequences. We learn from our mistakes and don’t make them again. Or do we? Sometimes, especially when you find yourself doing something over and over again—being late, forgetting to send something, leaving certain people… Continue reading
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Why Doesn’t Your Team Work?
All of us get to spend time on teams. Some of us spend all of our time on teams. There are terrible teams, good teams and great teams. Most of us rarely get to spend much time on great teams. … Continue reading
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Can’t Trust Your Boss?
What is Trust? First, let’s talk about what trust is. Trust is the ability to rely on a particular response from another person. If I trust you, then I’m pretty sure that you’ll do what I expect you to do… Continue reading
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Sorry. You Are Not Indispensible.
We all see ourselves as the hub of our own universe. This is not a bad thing–and it is natural. It does create blind spots, however. When we evaluate our importance to the organization it is through our own eyes. … Continue reading
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What We Can Learn From the Olympics
People who make it to the Olympics are REALLY good at what they do. Even people who finish LAST at the Olympics are way better than most of us. How do they get there? Well, the easy answer is that… Continue reading
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What Does It Take To Be An Executive In Your Org?
What Does It Take To Be An Executive At Your Org? Executives come in all flavors. Organizations also come in all flavors. People who want to be Executives come in all flavors. How do you know what your organization needs… Continue reading
