You are a Champion!
Leaders Can Set The Pace, by John Maxwell, The 360 ° Leader:
“♥ Leaders love progress. It’s one of their primary motivations. That’s why explorer David Livingston said, ‘I will go anywhere provided it is forward.’ As a leader, you probably love moving forward, and the faster the better. But that also can [...]
Archive for June, 2008
30 Jun
Set The Pace
27 Jun
Top People
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The Influence Myth, by John Maxwell, The 360 ° Leader:
“If I were on top, then people would follow me.”
“I once read that President Woodrow Wilson had a housekeeper who constantly lamented that she and her husband didn’t possess more prestigious positions in life. One day the lady approached the president after she [...]
26 Jun
Shock and Awe
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The Freedom Myth, by John Maxwell, The 360 ° Leader:
“Sometimes I think people get the wrong idea about leadership. Many people hope that it’s a ticket to freedom. It will provide a solution to their professional and career problems. But being at the top is not a cure-all.
Have you entertained [...]
23 Jun
Choose Happiness
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The Traveler’s Gift, Andy Andrews, 2002:
“Today I will choose to be happy. Our lives are fashioned by choice,Mr. Ponder.
First we make choices. Then our choices make us.
My life—my personality, my habits, even my speech—is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the [...]
16 Jun
False Hope
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Some of my articles will talk about Dreaming Big and other articles talk about my perceived reality because reality is about perception. I think it would be very difficult to really get a handle on true reality.
However, one of my objectives is to not give False Hope to anyone. In [...]
15 Jun
Gap Analysis
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Before and After pictures are often used in selling cosmetic type products or procedures.
Michel Fortin has a good article about applying the law of contrast to build desire:
“A gap is the perceived difference between the problem and the potential outcome. That is, you have to describe life with the problem and life [...]
11 Jun
Why Have a Dream?
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How many times have you heard the phrase, “Let’s get realistic” and so this article is about realism.
It’s August 28, 1963 and you’ve just finished your “I have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Your name is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your mind wanders to the year 2008 [...]
10 Jun
New Business
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Dr. Howard Stevens and Theodore Kinni, Achieve Sales Excellence, write this about new business:
“New business is still important–every company needs to build its customer base–but because of the additional cost involved in winning new business, repeat business is almost always more profitable. A 2004 McKinsey report, for instance, calculated that on [...]
9 Jun
Influence
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Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you a question and before you even finish your first or second sentence they turn and talk to someone else or walk away? You didn’t even get to answer their question! What did that tell you about the person? [...]
7 Jun
Credibility
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Howard Stevens and Theodore Kinni in their book Achieve Sales Excellence look at selling completely from a customer perspective and while the subject is primarily B2B the principles apply to any selling endeavor.
“In 2005, an annual study of business executives conducted by the Strativity Group, Inc., found that:
58 percent of executives said [...]
