Whether you’re just starting out, beginning a new campaign, or just wish to breathe some new life into your small business, there are some easy, ‘right-now’ steps you can take to push your business to the next level.
6. Be Willing to be Excellent
Imagine yourself starting ...
Guy Kawasaki's "The Macintosh Way" empowers the very essence of understanding the principles of evangelism and doing the "right thing the right way" in business. This book and his other book "Selling the Dream" should be required reading for startup companies. Values and principles in business are the key to ...
There is much written about the words leaders need to use, both in speech and on paper, to be effective. Words are certainly important, but there are other, more subtle messages that leaders send every day through their actions (or inactions) in the workplace.
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When was the last time you were able to just go out in your garden and relax? You know what I mean, sit there with a cold drink and a book, a BBQ and have friends over, or just playing around with your kids. Whenever it was, I can almost ...
Imagine Walt Disney at the age of nineteen. His uncle asks him what he plans to do with his life, and he pulls out a drawing of a mouse and says, "I think this has a lot of potential."
Or Springsteen. In a concert he once told the story of how ...
Even as Western Europe and the US struggle to emerge from the global recession, China and India are surging ahead. China is projected to become the world's largest economy within the next decade; India could leapfrog Japan into third place in individual country GDP rankings as early as 2012. One ...
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled ...
Here is a posting by the celebrated, leadership author Graham Jones: Graham Jones, PhD, is Director of Lane4 Management Group, a performance development consultancy, based in Princeton, New Jersey. Graham is the author of Thrive on Pressure : Lead and Succeed When Times Get Tough, published by ...