We have serious global environmental challenges to face,  an estimated 100 million homeless people worldwide, drugs devastating our communities everywhere, the US Financial Crisis weighing heavily on the global economy, countries at war, including our own, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
You have a company to run, a board of directors meeting to [...]

You are probably familiar with this poem. In today’s business climate you need the personal edge more than ever:
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well [...]

There are not too many words I can add, or even need to.  This wonderful video speaks for itself.
Please take less than 5 minutes to watch this and pray for our soldiers on this Veterans Day.
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl62967.swf&video_id=ervaMPt4Ha0&rel=1&showsearch=1&eurl=http%3A//mail.google.com/mail/%3Fui%3D2%26view%3Dbsp%26ver%3D1qygpcgurkovy&iurl=http%3A//i2.ytimg.com/vi/ervaMPt4Ha0/hqdefault.jpg&sk=zebrNp4wn5-37LFsnZG6ro4j45zXnN3tC&use_get_video_info=1&load_modules=1&autoplay=1
Coach Julia

How to have “Tremendous” MasterMind Group Meetings
 
My dear, inspirational friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones just passed away.  His memorial service is November 7th.  His most famous quote is “Five years from today you will be the same person you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read”.  I carry his torch, [...]

Yesterday I received an family email from my sister, who is Chief Risk Officer at a very large international bank.  Apparently, family members have been contacting her, asking about economic survival strategies.  They are concerned about their 401K’s, investments, retirement security, etc.
The world is in a panic, and I’m stating the obvious unless you’ve been [...]

My good friend John DiPietro, (whom I sometimes call my East Coast Counterpart) is doing a free event next week. 
He does these great interviews.  I just listened to the last one he did with Dr. Zimmerman and thought it was great.
John and I will be talking about Executive Coaching.  If you have been wondering what in [...]

Diversity in the world of MasterMind Groups vs Industry-Specific Groups
For the last 4 months, I have been using one of my fee-based Mastermind Groups as a “test case”,(with their permission, of course) to attempt to prove that diverse groups (not industry-specific) are more effective than industry-specific groups.  So far, my theory is still simply that: [...]

In my executive coaching, I frequently use the metaphor of someone having their “hair on fire” to describe a leader being visibly super-stressed.
Well, yesterday I got to witness it first hand in a non-metaphorical sense.  Yes, for real!  Get this: my husband and I are in LA on business.  His back was bothering him, and [...]

So…..You’re working around the clock. Even when you’re not working, your mind is on your upcoming meeting with the board of directors, how to get revenues up, expenses down, getting employees more engaged and more productive, what to outsource and what to keep in house, how to pull morale up for your sales staff, and [...]

Your business plan should be completed by the end of September and now that we are back from our summer vacations and we have the kids back in school, we can focus.  Does it seem like things are just spinning out of control?  Many of you have told me that, and believe me, I am [...]