The market has changed…
Customers aren’t buying. Your business model isn’t working. Expectations are unrealistic.
What do you do?
1. Do everything you can to grow the business
2. Make sure your are SEEN as doing as good a job
The main point I want to make is, really challenge yourself more than ever before on #1 AND don’t overlook the importance of #2. Read More
This month our member Webinar was on Networking Online and Offline:
PODCAST AVAILABLE:
You can download a podcast of this webinar.
TOP 10 IDEAS
ON
NETWORKING ONLINE & OFFLINE
1. Standard Networking Rules Apply.
Network when you don’t need anything. Give more than you take. Read More
You’ll make a lot of decent hires, (and some bad ones) but if you want to hire real stars here is how to find them.
Experience is the first thing we tend to look for but is never the primary indicator of stardom. Read More
I have made it no secret that I believe that success comes from doing things on Purpose.
But Action requires the inspiration to get started and the motivation to keep going.
This blog post is a departure from my typical articles. Read More
In my experience with my own teams and advising other executive teams on getting their strategy implemented, there are five major obstacles that you need to overcome.
As a leader you need to do these things on purpose if you actually want to get your strategy implemented and get your team to do the things you all keep talking about. Read More
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This topic comes up all the time in one form or another, so I thought I would put some structure around it, and give you some ideas, if you are dealing with a bad boss.
There are 4 categories of bad bosses
I’ve listed them in order of how
personally damaging they are to work for:
1. Read More
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This week our member webinar was on
the topic: Avoiding Career Hazards.
TOP 10 IDEAS
ON AVOIDING CAREER HAZARDS
1. DO Better, LOOK Better, CONNECT Better
My DO Better, LOOK Better, CONNECT better model is really important if you want to build value in your career. Read More
Photo by Jacek Walicki Down Dog Photography
Highly successful people are successful because they get a lot of help, not because they are too good to need it.
You are not expected to know everything. Really. So pretending that you do doesn’t have much of a payoff, especially if it keeps you from getting the job done. Read More
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I was giving a talk this week to an
audience of CIOs and one of the topics
we discussed was choosing the level of
service you want your team to deliver,
and how to do specific things on purpose
to make sure your team is consistently
delivering that service. Read More
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If you want to advance in your career you
have to give yourself permission to not
KNOW everything and not DO everything.
And you need the imagination to do
more of what the business requires than
your job entails.
As I have been preparing for our next
monthly webinar on Avoiding Career Hazards,
I stepped back to think about what really
holds people back in their careers. Read More
