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I start every conversation with my employees, bosses, and peers in the same way: “How can I help you?” Why? First, it yields better results than “What can I do for you?” or the always ill-advised “What can you do for me?” Second

I start every conversation with my employees, bosses, and peers in the same way: “How can I help you?” Why? First, it yields better results than “What can I do for you?” or the always ill-advised “What can you do for me?” Second

When I was a kid, my father taught me one of the best lessons of my life. It was about cows. I lived in New Jersey as a child, and if you ever drove any distance through Jersey, you couldn’t do it without passing several cow farms.

If you’ve read my previous post: Planting Seeds for a Better Tomorrow, you’re doing the work to plant seeds for your business’s future. Your ideas are starting to germinate and take root, and your business is growing along

Businesses that thrive believe in planting seeds. Allowing ideas the time and space they need to grow is the only way to facilitate the long-term health of a company. As much as we want to believe it, there are no magic bullets

Consistency builds trust over time. It also builds your reputation, so to build a good reputation, you have to choose repeated positive action, again and again. Think about it: if you consistently show up on time, you build a good

While Wayne Dyer is known more as a great spiritual thinker than a keen business mind, I find this quote more applicable than almost any other to my life as a leader. . In essence, it speaks to the open-mindedness and flexibility

Being prepared is all about creating rituals for yourself, and rituals at their core are institutionalized habits. When we talk about preparation, we mean creating habits that help you succeed. Here are five of my favorite tips on how to prepare:

I’m not a perfect person (chances are, neither are you), but I do strive to keep learning and growing. That’s the most important thing you can do in life and as a leader. If you can identify your opportunities for growth

Before we talk about preparation, I have a couple of questions I’d like you to think about:

How often do you prepare? When do you prepare? The night before? The morning of? Never?

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
– Richard Branson

Richard Branson is exactly right. If you’ve read my last post:

There’s an old office joke that goes like this:

CFO asks CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave us?”
CEO: “ What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”