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President Lincoln’s Lessons on Leadership

Today, I’d like to talk a little bit about Abraham Lincoln. There was a great book published in 1992 called, Lincoln on Leadership. I would recommend it highly to any leader looking to establish additional leaders in their organization. Lincoln, unfortunately, presided over the most challenging time in our country, where our country was at

Three Pillars of Success

I’m going to share with you the three pillars of success that need to be applied to be successful in business. The first pillar of success is Strategy. We’ve talked in the past about taking things from your head and writing them down. Why? Because as we put what’s in our head on paper, we begin

Best your Bests!

Let me start by wishing you all a Happy New Year. Let’s all commit to making this year our best year yet. It used to be that this time of year most everyone would sit down and write their New Year Resolutions. Some would follow through, most would not. The following year most would read

Delivery Mastery for the Holidays

In the essence of the holidays, a lot of us are ordering many different things on-line and sending them to a lot of different places. With this in mind, to build a successful organization, there’s always a first step. And that first step in any organization of being successful is called mastery. With mastery, I

Purpose, Passion, and Pride

In the early 1900s, Charles Schwab owned the Bethlehem Steel Company, and he couldn’t understand why the company wasn’t filling in on its quota. On one late afternoon, he walked down on the floor to talk to the Mill Manager and simply asked him, “Why cannot a capable man like yourself motivate these men to

What’s your Sweet Spot?

Business owners; you want to make more money, have more raving fan clients, have more fun with what you’re doing? There’s a certain way to get it. Would you like to know how? The answer is simple; find your sweet spot. I had a client named Jim I worked with for three years. We worked together

Radio Station WIIFM

What’s your favorite radio station? We have Pandora, we have Sirius XM, and we have our normal radio stations. I myself used to listen to 105.9 Paul and Young Ron in the morning. Everybody has a favorite radio station, whatever it may be; however, I will guarantee you, everyone in this world all has the

Coach ‘Em Up!

Just recently, I had a couple of experiences with a couple of clients of mine. The first was a client that shared on the coaching call that he received an email the day before from somebody on his team. Immediately when he shared this, I could see his body language go negative, like another issue

Hire on Attitude – Train on Skills!

Last week I promised I’d talk about today, hiring on attitude, training on skills. Last year, I went through an interview process that was pretty extensive. I started with 110 resumes that I received, not only was I requesting a resume, I was also requesting each person to answer two questions on my ad. Only

Live Your Dreams

Just recently, we completed our Action Coach global conference of which all our coaches from around the world get together to learn, grow, brainstorm, mastermind, listen to some great speakers, and take in some good learning. We’re usually live and in-person as this year we were supposed to be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which