It’s easy to race to the bottom. You discount your rate, cut corners, and become a commodity. As New York Times Bestselling Author Seth Godin says, “…the problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win. You might make a few more bucks for now, but not for long and not with pride.”
Rising to the top makes a lot more sense. And, it requires effort, insight, innovation, alignment, consistency, and sustainability. Rising to the top also takes distinguishing your company in the
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Stop Wasting Time Start Getting to the Root of Company Alignment, Productivity, and Performance
Research indicates that company culture is a defining factor in your company's success or failure. If company culture is unclear, who will determine it? Existing employees and new hires.
New hires often learn what is acceptable or not by observing others in the company. That's quite a hit-or-miss tactic that can cause a rotating door of new hires eating into your employee engagement and profitability.
When I work with clients, we distinguish their culture not only by defining key cultural
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Leadership Lesson: Hold Your Judgment
There’s a story I heard recently about a seven-year-old girl who could not sit still in school. The little girl continually gets up, gets distracted, and doesn’t follow lessons in school. Her teachers scold her, reward her the few times she pays attention, but nothing changes.
When she arrives home, she gets punished from her mother because the school called the mother. Further, her mother is called into the school to meet with the teachers. The teachers think the child has an illness or
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Reduce Meeting Times: Highly-Effective Leaders Keep in This in Mind When Meeting With Their Team
It might not surprise you to learn that research shows meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years, to the point where people spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s.
While the meetings are longer, the better question to ask is, are these meetings effective? Your role as a leader is more important than ever to communicate effectively and efficiently. However, most leaders hold meetings that do nothing to address
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The Speaking Process
Picture this: You just made the decision to add speaking to your marketing`. You are thrilled because you have a shot at getting in front of a room filled with your ideal prospects.
You spend some time working out the content. You figure you’ll wing the rest.
You deliver your speech and are quite pleased with your presentation. You’re relieved to finish your talk, the audience claps, and some people take your card.
Then you wait.
And wait.
And wait.
You check your phone to make
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