TURBULENT TIMES… AGAIN – Revisited… 10 Years Later
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On TEAMWORK: The Imperative and Reality of TEAM in Today’s Business World
Teamwork has never been easy, and in recent years it has become much more complex. And the trends that make it more difficult seem likely to continue, as teams become increasingly global, virtual, and project-driven. Taking a systematic approach to analyzing how well your team is set up to succeed – and identifying where improvements are needed – can make all the difference.
EASY LIFE
Life becomes amazingly juicy when you understand, own, and courageously fulfill your true purpose, which is often fraught with challenges that test and instill the true capabilities required to be truly effective at what you do.
What It Takes To Be Great
What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett the world’s premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a gift for doing exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he...
Military Principles Applied To Business Success
As a Marine Corps Logistics Officer, I’ve enjoyed managing the business of the Marine Corps in various capacities since I was commissioned in 1992. When I was 28 years old, I was responsible for literally millions of dollars of equipment and...
Gladiator Champion
Reflect for a moment… Focus on the metaphors which these two words bring to mind… First, the gladiator. Many of us see Russell Crowe, and his recent depiction of the gladiator warrior on the big screen. Strong, resilient, capable, idealistic, balanced. The gladiator...
Mortality
Today we celebrated the life, and mourned the passing, of my employer and mentor, Chet Holmes. The funeral service at the Catholic Church of Santa Monica was a reunion of sorts, and many people that loved Chet gathered to pay their respects. One of the great things...
Doing What It Takes To Overcome Gravity
What ever happened to achievement; the good old fashioned American work ethic? The attitude that made this wonderful country what it is today… the inspiration fostered by our forefathers, as they put their lives on the line for what they believed in… It’s almost like...
What Are You Doing Here?
Here’s another short from my book “GPS To Success:” So many people exist in their own personal status quo. They become engulfed and washed away in the flow, maintain their obliviousness, lose sight of how it could be better, and end up not wanting to make it better....
Be Strong
Be Strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle…face it; ’tis God’s gift. Be Strong! Say not, “the days are evil – who’s to blame?” And fold the hands and acquiesce – oh shame! Stand up,...
The Adventure Of Travel
I’m sitting here in the Delta Crown Room, waiting on my flight from LAX to Sydney, looking forward to a 15 hour journey, in a big, air-conditioned, pressurized tin-can at 35,000 feet. It was tough getting to this point… I’d planned this trip about three months ago,...
On Focus and Leadership
Lessons learned today on focus and leadership: It’s imperative that we lighten our burden, so that we can effectively manage our load in the midst of dynamics which require our focus. Whether that focus be during demanding times, which require our endurance and...
Be A Leader – The Steely System
The word “leadership” is practically an overused cliché these days. Some people believe that America’s politicians are leaders (mostly NOT), and the definition of REAL leadership has grown fuzzy and illusive. From my perspective as an extreme...
4 Big Promotional Tips
These days, in order to gain the attention of your ideal prospects, it’s imperative that you INNOVATE the way you promote your value and solution. Here are some tips: Scrap the “Image” and work on an identity. The first step to success is to get away from the idea of...
Keep The Curtain Up
Comfort Zones: The concept has become cliché. As business coaches and idealists, we are conditioned to push past our own comfort zones, and inspire our clients to do the same. He’s a perspective: As we expand ourselves, seeking to broaden our horizons, we are all...
Pushing Through The Perturbation
What do I do when I have done my best and the results are still not evident? There is a powerful presupposition of NLP that states that there is no failure, only feedback. We all have the ability to retain all of our learnings from our experiences as we enact and...
The Six Imperatives to the Reinvention of Business and Ourselves
Reinvention is something with which successful people are familiar. Whether in business or in personal life, in challenging times, or in times of relative calm, if you don’t evolve or change, you find yourself wondering what happened. Let’s explore the topic of...
Program The Language Of Your Brain
Programming the language of your brain… what if you could do it? What if you could predict your outcomes, eliminate your blockages, and pre-condition yourself for the success that YOU want? Fantasy? … NO: REALITY! At first, I didn’t believe it. Even after attending...
Multiculturalism
We are all one, big, global “culture,” with unique intricacies interwoven and interspersed. A profound realization that I experienced is that when it all comes down to it, we are all in it for the same things, where it be in China, America, Australia, or across...
Ramping Up Without Burning Out
Our current condition as a global business society is marked by destructive, as well as positive, outcomes of a rapidly changing, worldwide business and economic climate. No business, division, or employee – whether your organization is five people, a 50-person small...
What Are You Compromising?
As you build your business, and live your ideal life, one of the things that’s often in front of you is the fact that you can’t do everything all at once. Therefore, the paradigm of compromise looms large, especially when it comes to starting a business, and doing the...
Life Is A Paradox
Life is one big paradox. What’s up with that? Consider this: you’re born, you get married, you have kids, then you die… so if you don’t get married or don’t have kids, will you live forever? Well, of course not. But it begs the question… ah, the “question” — it’s the...
Business Success Only Takes 90 Minutes
Conditioning is the key to success in athletic performance, professional excellence, and business success. The best and most successful achievers in business are the ones that have CONDITIONED themselves to be successful; it didn’t just fall into their lap… Here’s how...
Strategy vs Tactics In Business
Throughout my 25 years of professional business leadership, I’m always surprised over how many business owners and leaders choose to remain reactive and tactical – versus strategically proactive – regarding their business activities, in essence sabotaging their...