Leadership

Are You Sales Waltzing with Your Partner?

Many of us were raised with the notion, If you want good help, do it yourself. However, for entrepreneurs that advice is severely lacking. Following this route is based upon narrow thinking, will require longer work hours, and quite possibly will result in missed opportunity.
The quickest route to reaching more people, a better […]


How To Develop Leadership Skills

You must agree to the fact that leadership skills play a great role in heightening the possibility of your getting a high profile job. If you have leadership qualities, things are much easier for you when you are facing an interview or participation in a group discussion as a part of the interview or selection […]


How Executive Coaching Can Help You

There are many benefits that come from being promoted inside an organization. You get a higher salary, more respect, and better job description. Many times, promotion brings you a more relaxed working environment. When you are in a lower level job, you get a lot of feedback on your performance. This […]


5 Keys to Relationship Selling

The problem most people face is they make the sales process too complicated. By so doing, they place barriers between themselves and their prospects. The prospective buyer can almost see dollar signs floating out of the eys of the business person. Once this is sensed, the sale dies.
However, once you make the sales […]


How To Deal With Fear In Transformational Leadership

Anyone who has ever engaged a large or important undertaking, be it commercial, private or in the support of others, knows that at some point FEAR is likely to come into play, and try to derail your best intentions. Anyone engaged in Transformational Leadership wil experience this at some point, mainly because they are human, […]


Building Better Leaders for Your Company

When speaking about the importance of leadership, Fred Fielder and Martin Chemers wrote, “The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.” Perhaps this is why so many businesses are willing to pay for executive leadership training. It is also why there are many different programs […]


What Can Executive Leadership Coaching Do For Your Company

With all the costs involved of running a business of any size, executive leadership coaching is low in the priority list for many business owners. But in reality, investing in executive leadership training is one of the best things you can do for your business.
Today’s economy is fickle and precarious and nearly all businesses are […]


Business Leadership - What it Takes to Differentiate Yourself in the 21st Century

Business leadership is not about any single quality so much as it is about a number of qualities that come together to create something much stronger than any of those qualities alone. Business leadership is not so much about managing others and “taking charge” as it is about motivating by example.
So if business leadership […]


Use Symbols to Inspire Breakthrough Progress

After starting the 400 year project (how to help the world make improvements at 20 times the normal rate from 2015 to 2035), I looked for ways to help inspire people to work on the project. Let me share with you my experiences so you can know what to do when leading your breakthrough project.
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Lessons for Starting a Breakthrough Project

Returning to the office after the 400 Year Project launch meeting in September 1995 to help the whole world make 400 years worth of progress between 2015 and 2035, my instincts as an historian kicked in. After all, a project that was going to have such great success should be well documented for the benefit […]