November 2011

Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” It’s always enlightening to read and hear the answers, because, after all, these folks have the benefit of hindsight to piece together all the relevant and important steps that led them to the top of the heap. I’ve …

I’m sure you’ve all heard this one before: “You Only Have One Chance To Make A Great First Impression” In fact, I bet you’ve heard it hundreds of times.  Because it’s true. “First Impressions” leave an indelible mark on everyone – a mark that takes up so much space in the brain that the second, third, fourth, and …

The Five Deadly Business Sins

The other day I was cleaning out some of my old files and I came across an article I had copied from the Wall Street Journal back on October 21st, 1993, written by Peter Drucker. It was entitled, “The Five Deadly Business Sins”. After scanning through the lessons I remembered why I took the time to …

Tick, tick, tick………. It’s relentless, this thing called time. Our world, and our very existence, has long been connected to the passing seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. “Now” is forever fleeting, because in one passing second, it becomes “Then”. And in the business world, this realization becomes all the more acute when it comes to using …

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