They called it the Reagan Revolution. Well, I’ll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery…
Tag: Management Advice
Serve to Be Great: 11 Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom
By simply shifting focus away from short-term goals and financial gain toward more effectively serving the people on their teams, leaders can create…
Protecting Your “A” Factor: 16 Accountability Killers to Avoid
It’s easy to assume that you’re an accountable person if you don’t tell outrageous lies and generally follow through on your commitments. But…
Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make (and Why They’re Holding You Back)
Nobody likes the uncertainty and stress of going out on a limb and (let’s be honest) putting your business at risk. But making…
Rally Those Referrers! Why Praise from “Friends” Is Worth Its Weight in Gold (and Seven Ways to Keep It Coming)
If your business is providing value to its customers, you already have loyal fans. Annie Tsai explains how to turn them into active…
A Better Way to Build: LePatner Project Solutions Takes Aim at Construction Cost Overruns and Delays
New York, NY (November 2013)—Barry LePatner has been influencing the design and construction world for 35 years. As founding partner of his construction…
Do You Put Clients Last? Ten Ways You May Be Failing Your Customers (and the One Way to Put Them First)
Joseph Callaway points out ten ways well-meaning business owners may be selling their customers short—and shares the deceptively simple solution to erasing these…
National Small Business Week Refresher Course: Seven Facts That Will Breathe Life into Your Business
Just as there are facts of life that affect us personally, there are facts of business life that affect us as entrepreneurs. In…
Does Your Workplace Meet These Three Powerful Human Needs?
If you want to outperform, outsell, and out-innovate the competition, first take a cue from Maslow (yes, the one with the hierarchy). Christine…
Five Mistakes Leaders Unknowingly Make That Scare Employees to Death
Without even realizing it, most leaders do and say things that send employees into their “Critter State” where every decision they make is…