Insights + Advice + Tips

Don't let the scotoma of CHARISMA before leadership stop your enterprise from growing. Watch this TED video to learn that YOU CAN and MUST lead your tribe.

Micheal Lotito ate an entire Cessna 150. I say that's proof enough we're headed toward a singularity - a point of no return in an mash-up of high tech and high touch - with our favorite scotomas in tow.

Two points: 1) DON'T GO IT ALONE - get a peer group established. 2) DON'T DO IT ALONE - build a system that profits from the success of others - and invest in that system until you've taught a bunch of others to do the same.

WDWDWWD? Why Do We Do What We Do? It’s easy to answer that question once we understand the inverse of our ‘Strengths’. Garth Hardin and I are good examples. Well… I’m an interesting case, but Garth demonstrates how his ‘Strength’ works for him. In this post I point out some clues to understand WWDWWD.

In the globally syndicated BNET blog Sales Machine,  Geoffrey James, the author, featured  an article called A Roadmap to Winning That "Yes!”  He said it “contains a very clear step-by-step roadmap for developing an initial B2B contact” ...

My top strengths chart out as Achiever, Input and Learner, so you’d expect me to be gleaning and digesting, right? Right! The 2011 Ernst & Young report is linked at the bottom, as is the original posting on their site. I’ve simply whacked out all the reading for you to see the bullet points. Assuming you simply want a litmus test to compare ‘you’ versus ‘them’ – or ‘me’ versus ‘we’?

I thought you’d like to set the ‘failure’ I’ve been writing about lately within a frame of the industry standard for failure. When I write to entrepreneurs, it’s assumed (I assume) that we fail regularly – and that we’re NOT ashamed of failing. Here’s Denis Waitley on the subject…

This is my second attempt to post from a new mobile Droid and with a touchscreen. Goes to show that we all have to start from the beginning.You too can learn new tricks!

To gain prospects, figuring out how to master the many on line paths to acquire customers & grow is now a must.  Here's 3 simple ideas, ways of thinking to do that without leaving your existing comfort zone: