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How do champion connectors empower and engage others?

How Can Leaders Find Their Best Champion Connectors?

I’ve spent the last 25 years working with some of the most fascinating people on the planet. Almost all are champion connectors. So how do you find champion connectors? How can you empower and engage your network to change the world?


How to Make 2017 Your Best Year Ever!

How to Make 2017 Your Best Year Ever!

How do you make 2017 your best year ever? I know I’m a bit early writing about making 2017 a great year. Here’s what I discovered.  If you invest in the final quarter of 2016, you are well on your way to an incredible and prosperous 2017.


Can you help your data team deliver extraordinary results?

Can your data team cultivate their soft skills to deliver results?

Today we are talking about what skills you need to deliver results through your data team. I believe data science has limitless possibilities. This is the good and bad of data science. To succeed, you will need to develop and build stronger data teams.


Can an old data dog teach data scientists new tricks?

What Skills Do Data Scientists Need to Build Their Careers?

As data scientists continue to take bigger roles in their organizations, what key capabilities are needed to take their careers to the next level? I’ve interviewed and worked with over 16,000 senior level executives throughout my executive career. Over 65% have served in the top three roles in their organizations,…


How can empowering leaders help others reach their goals?

How do empowering leaders influence others today?

I got several notes from people about Are There Influencers in Your Marketing Future? on influence and influencers. Several felt that I made it seem too easy to become an influencer. Actually, I believe it’s easier to be influential today than any other time in our history. How do empowering…


How do influencers build trust?

Are There Influencers in Your Marketing Future?

Marketing is changing. The next generation of clients has different expectation of what marketing is and how they decide what and who they buy from. So many marketing messages, so little time. Is it time for you to add influencers to your marketing mix? People have always been influenced by…


Can you learn to deliver a more powerful presentation?

How to Move People with a Powerful Presentation

Today we are overwhelmed by seeing thousands of messages every day. On an average day we might receive over 100 text messages, over 500 emails and see several hundred marketing messages, and this doesn’t include phone calls and meetings where you are also barraged by even more messages. So how…


What can we learn from emotionally intelligent leaders?

How emotionally intelligent leaders build winning teams!

How do you build out your organization’s leadership capabilities?  How do you get your teams to perform at a higher level in constantly changing times?  Why you must surround yourself with emotionally intelligent leaders? I suggested that you might consider evaluating your current leaders and any you recruit in the…


How do you avoid these social selling sins today?

Are You Guilty of the Seven Sins of Social Selling?

What sins do people commit in social selling? Why do so few people know how to leverage their efforts to grow their businesses using social selling? I believe many people fail to see the potential because they commit these seven sins in their social selling efforts.


How do you build more successful partnerships?

How Entrepreneurs Can Make Their Partnerships Successful

Over 90% of Fortune 2000 companies have strategic partnerships. Only 50% of executives in these organizations feel that they got the results expected for the time and resources they invested in their partnerships.