Leadership Development

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Does Trust Give Your Business an Edge?

  How do you gain an edge in this everchanging business environment?  Have you ever considered how to become the trusted advisor for your best clients and potential customers?  I have an easy way to create significant value for your clients while adding little cost to your products or services….


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How to Call on High Status Prospects

Salespeople often have mental blocks when it comes to prospecting. Low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority leading to the fear of rejection make some salespeople tense and uneasy about calling on prospects that they might feel are “better” than they are, socially or economically. These salespeople will not call on…


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How Do You Build a High Performing Leadership Team?

Last week, we talked about big data and how to be a better leader by better understanding how your market is changing. The challenge for most CEOs is to find individuals who can help develop and implement strategies to meet changing market needs by accurately reading the trends you see…


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An Entrepreneur’s Questions for Tonight’s Presidential Debate

Since the first presidential debate is tonight I thought I would help you get ready for the debate by giving you six questions I would ask if they had me moderate the debate. I know that won’t happen because I have strongly held opinions and I might be likely to…


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How Might Steve Jobs Reinvent the American Economy?

The US debt is over 16 trillion dollars and growing by $4 billion a day in interest is scary.  Even scarier is the growing unfunded liabilities in Social Security, Medicare, and National Healthcare.  If you look at just the debt, the debt per American household is $131,853.77.  If you look…


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How Much Do You Know About Your Best Clients?

How do you build a better business by knowing more about your best clients than your competitors? Last week we talked about knowing how to qualify your prospects better. I got several notes asking how to develop a better business development system for your growing your business. I thought it…


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Be Bold

So why do few leaders stand out from the crowd? If you want your organization to stand out BE BOLD.  We’ve talked about becoming a market leader, so what. What you really need to do is become the most fascinating person in your market.  So how do you do this? …


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Why you must be your market’s most visible leader

Last week we talked about how you can become a market leader using some simple strategies to position you and your business as a leader of your market. I’ve worked with many early stage businesses and technologies and have discovered the earlier you begin putting this foundational element into place,…


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How to Build A Lasting Legacy For Your Growing Business

Over the past several weeks we’ve talked about the changes going on in marketing and why things are changing in business.  This week, we give you several ideas on how you can create a unique marketing message that you deliver.  If you look at many successful large organizations you discover…


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Wanted : New Market Leaders

Between social media, reality television, lower cost video and distribution systems, we have seen the rise of many celebrity business leaders.  All you have to do is go to YouTube to uncover tens of thousands of entrepreneurs selling their goods and services. But does it work?  In a word, yes,…