Every day another business management or leadership book comes out and every day you are wondering how to best leverage your existing workforce.  We read about the top ten CEOs, what we “should” be doing to best manage our people, and we are overwhelmed with quotes and advice from all the top leadership ”gurus”. Just for a moment, let’s STOP.  Take [...]

Yesterday I was on a conference call with Dr. Izzy Justice, one of the global gurus on the topic of emotional intelligence (EQ).  He had two expert executives, Leticia Knowles, of American Express, and Steve Larson, of Wells Fargo, (formerly Wachovia), to share their expertise in how to make our workplaces more emotionally safe.  This [...]

             To plan: to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding):
Sounds like too much work, sounds boring, sounds slow.  Let’s just get on with the show…..that’s what most entrepreneurs say.  You’d be surprised how many people actually run small businesses without a written plan. For instance, he was good at [...]

Distinction: EQ is not drama. (things becoming more emotional)  It is the opposite.
 
We are all draining some amount of revenue because of a less than perfect score on our emotional intelligence.
 
Oh, man, here she goes again with the fluffy stuff.  Emotional Intelligence?  You’ve got to be kidding.  I have a deadline to meet…no time for touchy-feely talk [...]

In my executive coaching practice, it is my policy to bring a cutting-edge, thought-provoking guest speaker to my clients and customer base every month as value added, in the form of a teleconference. Every month I am amazed and impressed by our guest expert, but this month really took the cake.  I was privileged to [...]

You are a passenger on an airplane.  You look out the window of the place and the wing is on fire.  The oxygen masks drop down.  The flight attendants make an announcement that the pilot is going to have to make a crash landing on water.  You hear yelling: “Brace…Brace”.  People around you are starting [...]

SECRET……The dictionary tells us that a secret (noun) is something that is kept hidden or concealed.
 
Most of us have been exposed to the tremendously successful movie and/or the book called “The Secret”, which contains knowledge that has been around for thousands of years, and it was packaged in an intriguing and ingenious way to attract [...]

You’ve heard it a zillion times: “Leaders are Readers.”  My friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones said “5 years from today you’ll be the same person you are today except for two things: the people meet and the books you read”. One of my favorite quotes. He passed on a few months ago, and my job is [...]

I shiver when I think how many books I have read on the topic of leadership, and I’m sure you have, too.  It’s a hot topic in today’s business world. We need more and better leadership than ever before: think about the business role models you’ve seen on the news lately.  Scandals, coverups, greed, dishonesty, [...]

Sometimes in your Mastermind Group you will want to spend time brainstorming.
A successful Mastermind Group is one that can brainstorm well.  Many groups have problems brainstorming, therefore do not leverage their thinking power to the extent possible.
Brainstorming is the unashamed, prolific sharing of ideas that come to your mind when you are in the group [...]