Category: Leadership
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Searching For The Right Piece Of Advice
Read more: Searching For The Right Piece Of AdviceWe all have been given such great advice on how to live life, yet we struggle putting it into action The beginning of the year is an opportunity to reflect on the previous year as well as plan the year ahead of you. The start of this year has given me pause for some additional…
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Leadership lessons from Captain Tom Hanks
Read more: Leadership lessons from Captain Tom HanksToday must be a Tom Hanks kind of day, I’ve come to the conclusion. I start my morning off most days reading at least two newspapers to catch up on what is happening in the world. In one of those newspapers, they always highlight a celebrity birthday – and today, July 9 is Tom Hanks’…
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Tough And Competent Leadership To Help Solve Problems
Read more: Tough And Competent Leadership To Help Solve ProblemsIs it wrong to have a man-crush on an 86 year old dude? Well, if loving Gene Kranz is wrong, then I guess I don’t want to be right.
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My tribute to baseball player Kevin Youkilis and how he can help save our country
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Read more: My tribute to baseball player Kevin Youkilis and how he can help save our countryTo this day, Kevin Youkilis is still one of my favorite baseball players of all time. You say you’ve never heard of him? Well….. In the early 2000s when the Boston Red Sox were reemerging as a baseball powerhouse, “Youk” as he was called was in the middle of it. So allow me a moment…
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Building your championship caliber workplace team starts with spring training everyday
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Read more: Building your championship caliber workplace team starts with spring training everydayThe first snow has fallen, and I’m well on my way on a count-down to spring training and the return to baseball season. That’s pretty typical for me, being a fan of baseball as well as a hater of cold Indiana winters. It’s especially true this winter, after watching my favorite team, the Boston Red…
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Creating an environment that breeds success
Read more: Creating an environment that breeds successWith the new year ahead of us, many people take time to reflect on the happenings of the past year, both personally and professionally. It is time to taken an inventory if you will, on the assets and liabilities on your ledger. And it is a time to make plans to improve the performance of…
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Creating a buzz within your sales organization
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Read more: Creating a buzz within your sales organizationMeeting a sales manager for the first time, I always like to learn about their background. It is always good to figure out how they got to where they are. Generally, it tells you about the type of manager they are with their staff. In one case, Mary had run a daycare center and somehow…
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How to combat the marketing expert that proclaims “print is dead”
Read more: How to combat the marketing expert that proclaims “print is dead”A few weeks ago, someone dropped a bomb on LinkedIN. Within my circle of connections, the post by Jerry Miller created a lot of ripples. Thankfully, many people spoke up and denounced his proclamation that “Print advertising is dead.”
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Finding new business means finding the ability to persevere against being told no
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Read more: Finding new business means finding the ability to persevere against being told noIn my office at home is a picture of Abraham Lincoln and a motivational quote. The quote details how big a failure Abe was, especially early in life. Any historian can tell you about the failures Lincoln suffered in business, in politics, with his love life and his marriage. And yet he remained persistent in…
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Despite reputation as being stuck in the past, newspapers continue to innovate
Read more: Despite reputation as being stuck in the past, newspapers continue to innovateIf I randomly asked someone to label the newspaper industry, some of the words they would say might be: old, dying, not relevant, boring and stuck in the past. As much as those words hurt, there is some truth to them. But on the flipside, I see a lot of innovation going on that is…
