No effort is insignificant. By merely making a choice and pursuing an action, you can have an impact. Sure you might fail (at first), you might not be heard (at first), but you, your company, your world, your universe will be different because you took action. You moved forward on a new idea, workflow, [Continue Reading]
Do You Manage From A ‘Big Picture’ Or Details Perspective? Get Ready To Zoom In And Zoom Out!
What is your management style? Do you lead by making balancing complex markets and factors that can impact your business or do you roll up your sleeves and work out the smallest details? A few weeks back there was a TED event at the University of Michigan Flint. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a [Continue Reading]
EQ – What Einstein didn’t teach you!
Have you ever worked with someone who was incredibly smart, but somehow managed to damage relationships and had difficulty working with other people effectively? We have all heard the term “book smarts”, describing someone who might score well on an intelligence test. Different terms are used to describe a person through of as savvy and very [Continue Reading]
The Choreography of Sales Service – Should You Underpromise And Overdeliver?
. “We provide solutions.” Sound familiar, this is what our business is based on; what many business are based on, we all provide services. Today, the service sector’s share of the U.S. economy has risen to roughly 80 percent. Being a service business is complex, complicated and it’s on a continuum; customer’s expectations increase with [Continue Reading]
Give Time for Time.
Time Management- Donner du temps au temp Time in the organization is constant and irreversible. Nothing can be substituted for time. Worse, once wasted, it can never be regained. Everyone has numerous demands on their limited time. Time keeps getting away and we have trouble controlling it. No matter what your position, we cannot stop [Continue Reading]
Common Wisdom On Team Building With Champs, Not Chumps
Does Your Firm Excel As A Team? Trying to pick a restaurant for an important event a friend shared an interesting insight; the local area had a 5 star rating system. If you had to choose would you select a one or two star? One of my friends has been awarded a large project with [Continue Reading]
To Lead is to Serve!
In 1958, Robert Greenleaf published his essay, “Essentials of Servant Leadership”. The core as explained in the “Essentials” is: “The servant-leader is servant first… Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from [Continue Reading]
Strategy: Start At The END
Strategy: Start at the end. A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a vision. Paul Williams is the Founder of Idea Sandbox, a self-described Barnstormer, Creative Problem Solver, Retail Marketing Crackerjack and Writer. Recently Paul wrote, “One of the best starting points for a strategy session is at the end of it. [Continue Reading]