“Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau I like that quote. I wish I had a way of measuring how much time we spend in our businesses and our lives trying to do things only because we think other people think … Read more
“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey Last week I spent part of a day visiting with a leadership group whose organizational focus is entirely on growth. They’ve been talking about growth for years, and have … Read more
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow During 2014 we’ve spent a lot of time working with people around the idea of growth. After several years without much growth to speak of, people want to grow. Growth is fun to talk about & it energizes people. Unfortunately, a … Read more
“Growth demands the temporary surrender of security.” – Gail Sheehy Last week’s blog centered around some ideas for kick-starting growth in your business. Someone mentioned to me that a lot of the ideas mentioned apply to a leader’s personal growth as well. That’s true. So here’s the sequel to last week’s post, from that slightly … Read more
“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney We’ve been pushing people this year to think about growth, and while everyone’s initial reaction is excitement, that excitement usually changes to hesitation fairly rapidly. The question usually is, “How do we go about doing that?” Good … Read more
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker I love that quote. Sometimes I think success and leadership (and maybe lots of other things) are summed up in those twelve words. As leaders, we cannot hope to ever be successful without making courageous decisions. Yet, so many leaders … Read more
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time.” – Leo Buscaglia One of our keys to success in 2014 is the idea of being a challenger (read this if you have no idea what I’m talking about). We’ve been talking with people about challenging their people, their customers, and their entire organization. … Read more
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” – Seneca As leaders we all spend a lot of time talking about change. So does everybody else for that matter – if you google “change” you get 1.14 billion hits. Everybody agrees that … Read more
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey Leaders face new challenges every day. Some of them are money related, some are people related, some are customer related, etc. Some of those challenges are almost routine and don’t use a lot of the leader’s energy. … Read more
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu A recent Mindshop survey asked business leaders around the world to pick what they thought was a likely theme for their organization in 2014. The most common response was “Growth”. Based … Read more
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