CEOs & Leaders: Gain a new perspective for growing your business.
Had lunch with a great friend, Roger (Rhoades), who’s a 30+/year relationship counselor. Somehow we got on the subject of people who are spectators of life vs. people on the field in the game, and the song “Centerfield” by John Fogerty came up. The chorus is amazingly insightful to me as an advisor who works [...]
Read moreAfter a recent & rare snow day here in South Carolina (after snowball fights & snow wrestling with the kids!), I spent the evening inside, having a pancake party with my kids. As we made pancakes (and a mess!) together, I figured I’d snack on some cheese & crackers. Interesting thought dawned on me…Nothing wrong with [...]
Read moreAmazing…the impact that momentum, status quo and “that’s how we’ve always done it” can have at eroding sales and growth in an organization. Almost every server at every restaurant I’ve ever been to in any country/state asks, toward the end of the meal, “Did you save room for dessert today?” The creative ones mix up [...]
Read moreI was eating lunch with a business associate the other day. We were swapping stories about our past and laughing at how we made it this far and how we ended up being the ‘creative’ people we are today. Later on, I thought back to our conversation and it really challenged me as to ‘why’ I [...]
Read moreI came across a pretty insightful quote this morning: “The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can’t be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.” Shared it with 8 different people, different organizational levels, different walks of life, different generations. They all smiled and said [...]
Read moreDon’t be afraid to spend more time hovering over a destination…it usually means the plane you’re landing’s a lot bigger than you thought. Same thing’s true for big ideas. Let it breathe a bit, and get a few additional sets of trusted and experienced eyes on it. You just might be on to something remarkable.
Read moreTonight, before you drift off checking mindless email trails…stop and list the 3 things that you could do tomorrow to most impact your business, if you had to leave work at 11am. Then ask yourself why the rest of your day gets filled by tasks that don’t seem to show up on the list. The [...]
Read moreEver notice how the most important things—the things that have the potential to impact your company’s growth the most—seem to get pushed off for the stuff that impacts it the least? For sales people, it’s putting together the big proposal AFTER going through 6 hours of emails. For the CEO it’s finding the time to [...]
Read moreIt happens to all leaders at some point. We get a huge, tremendous idea for our employees, our customers, or both. But then we conform it to fit in the mold of how everyone else does it…”We couldn’t run an ad THAT bold, we couldn’t have a company event THAT outside-the-box…what would THEY say?” Comedian [...]
Read moreLeading growth, in both relationships and organizations, requires accepting whether something (a resource, a person, a window of opportunity, a client, a passion, a vision, an employee, a moment) is lost or missing. If it’s missing, finding it usually starts with deciding 1 of 3 things: Is it misplaced, out of order or broken? If [...]
Read moreTake 3 minutes to consider this idea, and I bet it’ll change your entire culture in 6 months. Regular staff meetings still seem to be sacred cows in organizations. What I’ve observed over the years, but especially in today’s fast-paced, information overloaded, message over-saturated day we work in, is this: Very few things warrant a [...]
Read moreMost conflict seems to occur when context is absent. I don’t think you understand my perspective…you don’t really understand why this is important to me…Don’t you see what I see? What was he thinking? What did he mean by that? Most of the time, what our reactions are communicating, during a conflict, is that we [...]
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