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Leading With a Challenge

“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” – Umberto Eco I recently finished reading an interesting book called The Challenger Sale, by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. I’m not big on reading book reviews disguised as blogs, so I’m not going to spend 1000 words talking about the book. I’ll just … Read more

Think Big

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” – David Joseph Schwartz Last week’s post was about attitude. I’ve been reminded of the power of attitude & belief again over the past week, albeit from a slightly different angle. I was visiting with a somewhat successful business owner about … Read more

Leaders and Attitude

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou We’ve talked about the idea of locus of control in this space before, and the idea that as leaders we don’t have enough time or energy to waste either on things we can’t control. Reading … Read more

3 Thoughts About Productivity and Innovation

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg We spend a lot of time internally, with clients, and on this blog talking about productivity and innovation. Sometimes we talk about them as though they’re … Read more

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