The Best Exit Strategy

On January 20, 2011 By

I had a great conversation at lunch yesterday with a couple clients in the process of implementing the Level 7 System in their businesses. Joe Cerino of HAR Adhesive Technologies and Hank Newman of Recon Logistics and I were talking about "exit strategies."   We agreed that "exit strategies" can [...]

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How a SQUIRREL Can Kill Your Business. Watch this…

On January 11, 2011 By

Many business owners are like the dog 'Dug' from the movie UP. They, like Dug, are going along, doing business, on task, focused on their goals and critical business tasks and all of a sudden…

 

Something draws their attention away.

SQUIRREL!

They lose focus, perhaps for a moment. Perhaps [...]

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Setting Your NEW DAY Resolution

On January 4, 2011 By

The average person, I have read, gives up on their New Year's Resolution by the 18th of January.   Watch what happens in the gym around that time. The place, which is now packed with people committed to getting back in shape, will look like ghost town in about 3 weeks. That's just one example. [...]

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Who’s Leading Your Team Out the Tunnel?

On December 29, 2010 By

I had a great meeting with a client this morning. We were discussing the nature of leadership and the results and impact really, really good leadership can have on a business.

One of the partners, Phil, who is a natural coach, having been involved in competitive sports most his life and now [...]

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This Should Get You Movin’

On December 7, 2010 By

It's a work morning again. Hopefully you don't have the working day blues or blahs or whatever the associated feeling you have when there is a lack of excitement or enthusiasm for your day and upcoming week.

If you feel like the dunkin donut guy (perhaps you remember him. He's the guy that [...]

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Are You Performing the Leadership Dance?

On November 10, 2010 By

Several years ago a good friend named Scott was visiting from out of town.  My wife, Scott and I went bowling one evening for fun. There is no other reason for me to go bowling other than for fun because I am pretty bad at it. Kind of like golf [...]

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Success…Redefined…

On October 25, 2010 By

“From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.”
                                                    George Bush

I once believed that I had to choose between two different daily agendas. Agenda number one was the agenda to accomplish the goals that I set for myself. Agenda number two was the agenda of allowing others to dictate my [...]

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Getting Out of Your Rut

On October 13, 2010 By

Remember the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? If you didn't see the movie, Phil, the character Murray played, lived the same day over and over. He would wake up at 6 am everyday and the course of events that took place around him was identical to the day before. The only difference was him. [...]

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You Betta Think…

On September 22, 2010 By

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free…

…Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom [...]

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Running Your Business Like an Emergency Room

On September 14, 2010 By

In a hospital, an emergency room is equipped and poised to handle the unexpected. They never know what is going to happen next. The circumstances that occur outside the emergency room are beyond their influence or control. They simply can't change or fix it. They are [...]

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