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Have you ever been frustrated at your IT person? You know, the one who builds an ivory tower that makes them the bottleneck for any simple requests? Years ago, I remember having a strategic meeting with an executive team on how to increase collaboration. Their processes and systems needed to
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Using Twitter can make you smarter. Yes, it can also make you dumber if you just waste time tweeting about a bunch of nothing. I had already posted about a way to use Twitter that makes it fun and relevant. Read that article to see how to capture your thoughts
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Yes, if you want to scale a business for revenue and efficiency, then it takes systems, process and automation. These are things I have done for many years and it takes an immense amount of energy and focus for an organization and its leadership to get to the result. Automation
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It can feel like a good leadership move to sympathize with the problems of your employees or workers. We all get to see that same storyline of sympathy play out in a show like Undercover Boss where the detached executive experiences the difficulties on the front lines. That is designed
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You've probably noticed the tension and unwhole feeling inside yourself from indecision and not committing fully. It's the cause of poor execution for many business people. I think so much is coming at us and many times, we are just overwhelmed. It's why being
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It's hard to get clear. When you think of all the exchanges with calls, meetings, emails and overall communications we have each day--we do those things to create meaning and drive clarity. Clarity is high value. Because when we are clear, we can execute without inhibition. It creates
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It does take special people to make ideas happen. The hard part of innovating comes when you execute. For a long time, you don't have rewards or feedback that tell you that your idea works. The effort and cost has a little bit of return. It's
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It's likely you have a Twitter account that was set up because everyone else was doing it. Or you may be active and interacting with the world of celebrities, locals and interesting people you find out there. It's a tool that can be used in so
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We have spent many hours consulting with different couples and business partners around their strengths. We help them understand who they are individually and how their styles interact with each other. In our time together with this couple, we walked through the various scores for both, interplays and how they
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Too often emotion clouds our conversations in business. Sometimes, we think we are getting somewhere in a discussion with others, but in reality, there is just emotion being exchanged. And this can be ambiguous and dangerous. Feelings are important, but they can create a lot of unnecessary cycles when it
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"Money Loves Speed." ~ Joe Vitale When it comes to deal making, time is of the essence. This is especially true in our connected economy. People are extremely busy and inattentive. Thus, it's hard to depend on someone caring as much as you do to move towards
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If you are like me, you are being inundated with information on many different fronts. Email is our work. So are social media, text, calls, etc. It's not something to escape from, it's what you are responsible for. Information flows through you as part of the