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Lighten UP

“Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.” Michael J. Gelb Leadership requires bold, creative, insightful and fresh thinking. If you find yourself caught in intense swirls of thinking, lighten up. Your

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Real People, Real Success – Anne

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all

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Follow Your North Star

“Let your dreams be your North Star.” Maryann Koopman Passion, drive, aliveness, motivation, engagement, awareness, openness, and curiosity seeps through the pores of a leader when they follow their internal North Star. Leaders who dare to dream and design ways to bring them to reality have that certain “je nais

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No Two Ways Around It

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb Developing leaders and managers takes time. There is no fast track, there are “no two ways around it”, it just takes

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Reverse It!

  “That which is rewarded gets repeated.” It is a proven science if you give positive feedback you will get more of the attribute you rewarded. I have recently seen a slew of leadership articles and quotes focused on how to be a better leader, what type of leader keeps

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And… Action

“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking,

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Stay Connected

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing to do in business (and personally) is to

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The Trap of Defeat

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley   A couple posts ago, I talked about the Trap of Prosperity. Essentially, it is a period of stagnancy that sometimes comes along with

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The Customer

“There is only one boss: the customer.” — Sam Walton   A successful business should be honest to its customers, good to its employees, and well-organized in its management. And when I say this, I mean that a successful business has to be all three of these things. I have

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Lighten UP

“Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.” Michael J. Gelb Leadership requires bold, creative, insightful and fresh thinking. If you find yourself caught in intense swirls of thinking, lighten up. Your

Continue Reading »

Real People, Real Success – Anne

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all

Continue Reading »

Follow Your North Star

“Let your dreams be your North Star.” Maryann Koopman Passion, drive, aliveness, motivation, engagement, awareness, openness, and curiosity seeps through the pores of a leader when they follow their internal North Star. Leaders who dare to dream and design ways to bring them to reality have that certain “je nais

Continue Reading »

No Two Ways Around It

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb Developing leaders and managers takes time. There is no fast track, there are “no two ways around it”, it just takes

Continue Reading »

Reverse It!

  “That which is rewarded gets repeated.” It is a proven science if you give positive feedback you will get more of the attribute you rewarded. I have recently seen a slew of leadership articles and quotes focused on how to be a better leader, what type of leader keeps

Continue Reading »

And… Action

“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking,

Continue Reading »

Stay Connected

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing to do in business (and personally) is to

Continue Reading »

The Trap of Defeat

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley   A couple posts ago, I talked about the Trap of Prosperity. Essentially, it is a period of stagnancy that sometimes comes along with

Continue Reading »

The Customer

“There is only one boss: the customer.” — Sam Walton   A successful business should be honest to its customers, good to its employees, and well-organized in its management. And when I say this, I mean that a successful business has to be all three of these things. I have

Continue Reading »