Our Leadership Contest was one of our most popular blog posts to date with over 140 people posting their thoughts on what the central concept of being a leader is. With people from across the country weighing in with their thoughts on leadership, just scanning through the comments you can pick up many nuggets of wisdom. In fact, I felt like I was reading a book on Read More...
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As a rapidly growing organization, we are hiring skilled individuals to deliver phone presentations to potential clients. Essentially, you will be exposing our training programs to business leaders throughout the country.
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Everyone has habits. We have good habits and we have bad habits. You might not even classify some of your actions as habits, but keep this in mind: Anything that you think, say, or do more than once is becoming a habit. It is impossible to QUIT a habit. A habit must be REPLACED.
So, how do we replace a habit? Most research today says that it takes 21 days to form a habit and 21 days to change or break a habit. This is why most people fail at changing a habit; it takes a consistent, mindful and sustained conscious effort. Forming a habit is not 21 days over the course of a month; it is 21 days in a row. This causes us to go outside of our comfort zone for 3 weeks straight, and most of us do not Read More...

Many products in the personal development field focus on what behaviors you need to acquire to accelerate your way towards success. This program, 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back, takes the opposite approach and focuses in on the habits you need replace to take your foot off the brake in the fast lane to success.
The author, James Waldroop, has spent 20 years Read More...
Today I am going to write about a tangible way you can increase your enjoyment, pay, and recognition at the office, while impacting more people through your work,. It starts with a mindset of treating your professional life as a BUSINESS instead of a JOB. This mindset plays a huge role in the activities you devote your time to throughout the day.
We will start with how you manage your schedule. Regardless of your title, you can create a schedule from a business owner’s perspective. The key difference is a business owner creates a schedule based on the RESULTS he or she wants to accomplish. An employee creates a schedule based on the HOURS that he is supposed to work. Here’s what Read More...
Time Magazine celebrated and recognized Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in its cover story July 21, 2008. Arguably, one of the world’s greatest leaders, he librated South Africa from violet racial prejudice and united his people across race lines.
As a leader, both with a “Big L” and “small l“, he has held the roles of President, warrior, martyr, diplomat, statesman, husband, father and grandfather. Richard Stengel, of Time Magazine, Read More...
Do you know what the key characteristics of top-rated managers and leaders are? More importantly, do you know how to attain them?
Now you can uncover the answers to virtually every question you’ve ever has about sales leadership and management.
This comprehensive program, by Brian Tracy, packs thousands of profitable strategies into 14 one-hour sessions designed to help cut Read More...
What do I mean by “Leadership with a small l”? Yesterday I wrote about Leadership with a Big L – that is being a leader when that is your job and responsibility to set objectives, map a course of action and get results from a group of people. This usually shows up in your job title. For instance, you could be a manager, a coach, a director etc. On the flip side, leadership with a small l is leading when it is NOT your responsible to lead others; instead, it is two things:
First of all, it’s how you lead yourself.
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Leadership with a big L is the kind of leadership that comes with a title: Manager, Vice President, Director, CEO etc. It is when you are responsible for a group of people and providing direction to a predetermined result in a business, church, school or family. I’m going to share 4 keys that apply to anyone who’s in charge of anything involving more than one person. Is that you? I bet it is…..
These 4 keys come from an incredible book I read last year called The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, by Patrick Lencioni. I would highly, Read More...
I recently recieved this question via email from a memory training graduate. She wanted to learn more about applying the memory techniques when reading fiction. Her question and my reply are below. Enjoy!
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Dear Dave,
I took the memory training course in Minneapolis, Minnesota recently and I have just finished my first listening of your CD “Read More...