Category: Productivity

The Right Rooms 

One of the most important questions business owners and leaders who are looking to grow must ask is: am I in the right rooms?  By

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Freedom to Abstain 

This quote in Ryan Holliday’s excellent Daily Stoic book jumped out at me recently: “Addiction is the loss of the freedom to abstain.”  Freedom. I

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Celebrating Success 

Common traits of business owners: ever forward, continuous improvement, never satisfied, nonstop activity toward the vision.  One thing these characteristics do not have in common:

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Fire Bad Clients 

When I was 23, I became the top executive of a 60-year-old organization.  One of the most powerful lessons I learned in that role is:

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How to Win Long-Term 

What is proactive, strategic thinking? It’s about long-term success. Winning, success, whatever you want to call it, can be defined however you want: the largest

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Responding

  One of the biggest improvement opportunities for busy professionals is responding rather than reacting.  The person at the top of the organizational chart got

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Anticipating 

Recently, at a church service, an altar server caused a short pause by not anticipating a routine task during the service. As a former altar

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Prepare in the Good Times 

Think back to March 2020. How many individuals and businesses wish they’d not spent that moderate-to-large amount on that discretionary purchase in February? How many

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