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You Are A Marketer…

I have always been a proponent of saying that marketing is a holistic activity. I stand by that now more than ever. To take it a step further, all people are marketers. I remember a story I heard back in the my college days about anyone that has had sex is in sales…and the same […]

Communication Is The Core Of Leadership

You can’t lead without communicating effectively. You can give orders and tasks, but you will never be a leader.

Dave Wakeman’s 33 Questions You Can Use To Be Better At Business

I have been throwing out occasional posts about being better at business…and this one does and doesn’t fall into that category, so it doesn’t have the keyword attached. But here are 33 questions you can use to make yourself better at business: 1. What is my priority? 2. How can I do this better? 3. […]

The Art Of This Site…

Occasionally, I get an email or a comment about the nature of my site… And, for the most part, I don’t get business because someone is Googling organizational development, communication, or leadership and find me. The art of this blog is in the fact that I have worked to drop a new idea out into […]

Be Careful of the Race

Be careful of the race you are running. In business it is easy to try to be cheapest or fastest, but tough to go for the best. Or, are you trying to win the most customers? The most clicks? Likes? Or, Retweets? If you are, is it the right race you are running. Is your […]

Social Butterflies

We used to think of social butterflies in a negative way, but as you progress in your life…it becomes obvious that the best kind of networking comes from people that act like butterflies, flittering from one flower to the next, collecting a little bit of magic, and moving on to share it with others.

Ongoing Development

One of the challenges I see in a lot of organizations is that as they grow, they don’t do a very good job of on boarding their project based tasks into their operations. Another thing I see a lot, is a failure to develop and mentor team members, managers, and staff on some of the […]