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Impatient for profit; patient for growth

The relentless pursuit of business growth can kill your company. There are countless examples of companies that found themselves in dire straits - or... Read More

Good night, Irene: Adapt and overcome

While I was in Sacramento, California, doing a No-Compromise Leadership workshop, Hurricane Irene was barreling toward the East Coast on a track that... Read More

Frustration and trusting that the dots will connect

Frustration over an extended period of time influences your leadership thinking and behavior in a not-so-favorable way. Your temper can flare over... Read More

Getting Off the Hamster Wheel When it Comes to Salon/Spa Ownership

While presenting one of my No-Compromise Leadership workshops, it was obvious I touched a nerve when I hit the subject of leaders being stuck on the... Read More

Don’t allow it to get all over you

Last week I worked with my team at an Incubator seminar in our business academy, next door to our corporate offices. Incubator is four days of... Read More

It's the thinking and behavior

I just completed a tour of the Zappos corporate headquarters just outside Las Vegas. It was fun and enlightening to actually experience how a... Read More

Yay team!

Just because a group of people work at the same place doesn’t mean that they’re working “together,” toward the same goals. Successful businesses have... Read More

Leadership and Happiness

Along with being the leader of a company comes a whirlwind of feelings, and somewhere intertwined in those feelings is happiness. By happiness,... Read More

An Entrepreneurial Manifesto - Part Two

Based on the volume of blog comments, last week’s MMWU clearly hit home with readers. My intent was to reinforce the one sacred and magnificent... Read More

An Entrepreneurial Manifesto

I have been an entrepreneur for almost my entire working life. I have experienced first hand the elation of success and the crush of failure. My... Read More

Believing

There is extraordinary power in the simple act of believing. In and of itself, believing is the process of weighing the pros and cons, and all the... Read More