To-do lists can be motivating and overwhelming at the same time. Making them is easy, but achieving them can be an unpleasant and disheartening experience. This love/hate sensation is because to-do lists are usually a mix of thrilling, fun, boring and scary action items. Booking vacations, shopping for a new outfit, and getting a massage are …
Tara Mohr’s book “Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create and Lead” is about the tools she’s used with thousands of women to help them take big steps forward in their lives and careers. Mohr maintains that some women feel they aren’t ready to take on that next bigger role. The inner critic can be …
Selling is essential, and sales are the lifeblood of any company. Good selling solves problems, propels markets and builds value. But I’ve never been a big fan of terms like “closing a sale” or being “a closer.” Closing sounds restrictive, excessively dominant, and single-sided. Instead of “closing” I like to think about “earning” a sale. …
Turning things upside down is always a good exercise for expanding and freshening your outlook, and Dan Pink is one of the best at this exercise. In his Flip Manifesto, Pink talks about popular advice that he’s found to be “Not wrong as in a ‘little bit off’ or ‘not quite right.’ But just plain wrong-flatly, …
Every day, we all crave clarity, whether we know it or not. At home, at work, at play, we’re constantly looking for help in what to think, say, and do. Clarity leads to better understanding, knowing more, confidently committing, and then doing exactly what’s needed. Patrick Lencioni has turned the pursuit of clarity it into …
If you’ve ever found yourself in meetings gone awry with digressions and detours, this next tip might just save you some time and aggravation. Bob Frisch and Cary Greene are partners in the Strategic Offsites Group and are co-authors of “Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting & Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your …
Elite performers, in any field, are not born but made. Running faster and thinking faster can certainly help but the real key to excellence, in sports and business, is mental toughness. Graham Jones is a former professor of elite performance psychology at the University of Wales and has consulted to top performers in business, athletics, …
The workplace can be tough, tougher than it should be sometimes. Long hours, high stakes and continuous pressure can easily harden hearts and turn colleagues bitter towards one another. We know too well the popular aphorisms about competition: It’s dog eat dog. It’s survival of the fittest. It’s either me or him. Healthy competition is good, …
Number-crunchers, engineers, and computer programmers continue to be some of the most sought after professionals in business today. We need them to calculate possibilities and prove potential, we need them to build new structures and technologies, and we need them to write the code that makes it all shareable on our laptops and smartphones. But …
CNBC’s small-business TV program, The Profit, features Marcus Lemonis as he uses his own money, and tough love, to fix struggling small businesses. Lemonis, 42, knows what he’s doing. He’s the CEO of Camping World/Good Sam, a $3 billion national retailer of recreational vehicles and camping supplies that employs over 6,000 people. The show is fun …
