Always Compete, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Growth, Marketing, Networking, Never Quit, Professional Development
If you’re anything like me, you probably hate selling. Most of us get our hate for selling from early childhood experiences like selling Christmas cards door to door or worse, having to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a store to total strangers. Then of course we...
Always Compete, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Marketing, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
I have a love/hate relationship with McDonalds. On one hand I love the fact that I can stop off on any long car trip in the morning and get a decent (albeit unhealthy) breakfast with pretty good coffee. But as an organization, I hate that they can’t seem to embrace...
Always Compete, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Marketing, Motivation, Networking, Never Quit, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
Hollywood seems to be in full-bore reboot and sequel mode. Where Summer and Thanksgiving used to be the launch of the big blockbusters, now they seem to be nothing more than a couple of new ideas but many more sequels and more recently, the reboot – a remake of a...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Marketing, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
I always find it interesting that when I drive my truck down the two-lane back roads near my house and a vehicle passes me, 99% of the time that driver raises a pointed index (index, not middle!) finger off the steering wheel in simple acknowledgement. It took a while...
Always Compete, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Management Development, Marketing, Motivation, Never Quit, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
Have you ever had one of those days where you knew you had an unpleasant task to take care of but didn’t want to do it? It may have been a call to return with an unhappy client. Maybe an uncomfortable conversation with an employee. Perhaps it was a sales call that...
Always Compete, Communication, Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Go Full Speed, Goal Setting, Growth, Marketing, Motivation, Never Quit, Personal Mastery, Problem-Solving, Professional Development
As a big user of LinkedIn, I am seeing certain trends that concern me. Putting stuff on it that really belongs on Facebook (political opinions, “can this WWII veteran get 1,000 likes?” and religious stuff). Self-congratulatory aggrandizing (“Honored to be the keynote...
