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Verne Harnish, The Growth Guy, mentioned the importance of the proper mindset for growing your business in his July 16, 2010 blog post.  He references John Warrillow’s book, Built to Sell, which provides 8 Steps for Creating a Sellable Firm.  While I haven’t seen the list yet, I imagine the mindset that this list helps [...]

The world has dramatically changed since the Great Recession that began in 2008.  We no longer live in a world of perceived stability and certainty.  We live in a world of perceived instability and uncertainty and many have predicted that it will remain that way for some time.  We are really all on our own [...]

Change and complexity, in both our work and personal lives, is increasing at accelerated rates with each passing day.  Thus, we not only have to be grounded in great personal and work habits but our habits much evolve and improve to deal with the accelerating change and complexity.  Otherwise, the accelerating change and complexity will [...]

The day that will change your life forever and take you from occasionally thriving to thriving at all time is the turning point.  The turning point occurs when you fundamentally embrace a new approach to all your challenges and opportunities.  2010 provides the perfect circumstances for people to arrive at this day and make the [...]

The Alabama Crimson Tide won the BCS National Championship by beating the Texas Longhorns 37 to 21 at the Rose Bowl.  I was a few minutes from turning the game off and heading to bed when the Texas Longhorns began to rally in the second half of the ballgame.  Although the final score was decisive, the [...]

As we prepare to head into the two biggest annual holiday celebration weeks in the U.S. each year, many people are beginning to think about their New Year’s resolutions.  Unfortunately, many people will not come at their resolutions with the proper perspective.  Thus, their resolutions will become one of their first failures of the year.
The [...]

When I wrote the article “Set-up Your Own Game…”, I did not expect there to be a part 2.  However, this morning I received Seth Godin’s blog post and thought it to closely related to yesterday’s article to not provide this short addendum.
Seth points out that you could be selling yourself and your long-term future short by “accepting [...]

It is not possible to be fearless in action if you do not accept temporary failure as a part of the process.  There will always be too much fear associated with your action when you try to avoid failure in moving forward.   No success path comes with all the answers already provided.  You must take [...]

Today, I officially closed down a non-profit organization I started over three years ago to improve the entrepreneurial environment for high growth entrepreneurs in Ohio. It was a surprisingly easy and rewarding thing to do in many ways. I believe it is because I gave it my best shot and I know that failing, quitting, [...]

Achieving high performance is a big challenge for leadership during uncertain times.  Many organizations and companies look for new ways to assign, combine, and re-allocate their assets to improve performance during tough times.  Unfortunately, these changes too often come in the form of reactive management and negatively impact performance.
High performance leadership during uncertain times is [...]