How To Start A Business Or, how to become successful in business: Wouldn’t you love to have the answer to this question? What if there was some magic formula you could drink and you would immediately be successful? What if…
How To Be A Good Salesman It is hard to find a more successful salesman and sales manager than Wayne Lewandowski. Wayne was a client that I spent many a Monday morning 6 AM meeting talking about how he was…
Ever wonder about the significance of community? In the early 1990s, a group of women who were partners in what was then Coopers & Lybrand met to form a group study. At first they gathered monthly to discuss their careers…
Do you believe your name determines what or how you think? How you behave? I must say I am a bit of a skeptic but I’m coming around to the idea. I am not so convinced that I am willing…
As Karen and I sat at the kitchen table a few days following 911, we pondered all we might learn from this horrific event. We decided to make a list of the things we were thankful for. On my list…
Life lessons from my fist car purchase. When I was 15 years old I bought my first car. I didn’t have my drivers license, but from a very young age I knew I wanted something fast. I was walking home…
I met Dick Vitale in 1999 while working as a regional VP of operations for a large pizza company. He signed the basketball pictured here because my wife died from her bout with breast cancer several months before. Diane was…
Who before what? Really, the strategy guys will tell you what before how. When does ‘who’ enter the picture? The answer is found in discovering one’s identity. To get to this discover where values and natural ability collide! Ben Franklin…
Your identity matters! You have a purpose in this creation. Do you believe you are uniquely created and have a purpose? If so, how important have you made pursuing your uniqueness? These are examples of questions that people skirt around when…
Reward your best. Move the worst out. Otherwise you keep the marginal. The marginal want you to keep the worst because the average worker looks good compared to them. Your best want to be challenged with other peak performers. I learned…
Discipleship: A Holistic View. Head, Hands and Heart Work In the beginning… We are born with joy and curiosity. Everything is new. Every encounter fresh. In this regard we are a lot like Adam and Eve. Their home was without…
Okay, so you are almost 2 months into 2016. How are you doing with those things you resolved to do at the beginning of the year? Are you rising early to get a great start to the day? Achieved that…