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Personal Development

When I go around speaking and meeting with business leaders and executives, I hear the term “personal development” thrown around with increasing frequency. I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember, but I know that sometimes people have a hard time deciding what’s a good use of time and what isn’t in […]

3 Business Lessons You Should Learn From Nick Saban

After several weeks of hand wringing by Alabama fans (count me in), Coach Nick Saban recently signed a contract extension that is likely to make him college football’s first 7M a year coach. Because of the increased attention, I felt like now was a good time to take a look at 3 business lessons you […]

3 Tips To Close Out the Year Right

Lately I have been talking to people about how to maintain their momentum at the end of the year so that the New Year doesn’t roll around and you find your progress coming to a screeching halt. It isn’t easy…but it is possible. Here are 3 tips to close out 2013 right and get started […]

The Most Important Question You Can Ask In Business…

You can ask a lot of questions in business, but the most important one you can ask is simple: Why? Why are our sales slipping? Why is our marketing not gaining traction? Why isn’t our leadership communicating effectively with all of our team members? Why can’t we innovate? Why can’t we grow more quickly? You […]

Upgrade Your Sales Training In 3 Simple Steps

Sales training always seems like it brings dread to the people hiring the sales trainer and the sales reps that are going to receive the training. It really shouldn’t be this way. As with all forms of training and development, sales training should be a constant and continual process of improvement built into the employee […]

Business Should Be Creative

I spent a little time over the holiday weekend reading an excellent book by Gary from Clif Bar called Raising the Bar. You should read it. I won’t spend too much time on what Gary talks about, but one of the big points that he discusses is about Clif being able to keep its MOJO no […]

Just the Basics #2: What is Marketing?

If you surf the Internet for any period of time, you will find a lot of self described marketing “experts,” “gurus,” and “ninjas." They will all fail to tell you what marketing is. Marketing is everything you do. Simple as that. Every action you take. Every decision that you make. Every little bit of your […]