Take a cue from elite athletes who know how much to train AND avoid overtraining. Here are four ways to tell you’re about to hit a performance wall. Sometimes it’s obvious you need a break, but in most cases you’ll figure it out only once it’s too late. When you work double-digit hours during the […]
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Women’s History Month began Thursday, March 1, 2012, and ends Saturday, March 31, 2012. Women entrepreneurs are known to be successful and have differentiating characteristics to their male colleagues in fact Erotic Capital is one of the more controversial measures and gender arbitrage one of the most opportunistic. That being said, everyone has challenges on their way […]
As a reader or subscriber to this blog, you know that I teach public speaking skills to business owners and executives as well a Persuasion Presentation Principles that Unleash The Speaker Within You. One of the most popular presentation tools is Powerpoint. That being said, Powerpoint can often KILL rather than improve a presentation. Watch […]
At one time or another chances are you’ve worked in a Toxic Team… You know what I’m talking about don’t you? One of those teams where the week feels like this: MOANday TEARSday WASTEday THIRSTday FIGHTday Seriously though, there are some common traits that are alive and well to some degree in all Toxic Teams […]
I have mixed feelings about willpower and it’s importance in goal setting and achievement. The main reason is that if you have a clearly articulated goal, outcome or dream you want to achieve that really excites you, you don’t need any willpower to get it done. Willpower to me is an excuse for impotent goal […]
Being exponential, I am always fascinated by how people abuse jargon and terminology to confuse and muddle their messages. Jargon consists of technical terminology that makes perfect sense to your colleagues and co-workers but is annoying, useless and even confusing to outsiders like your clients, prospects and suspects. The #1 culprits are politicians who babble […]
Back in the days before the Internet, there was a time management concept I heard about called the “1 Touch Rule”. Simply stated, it meant that when a paper came into your IN Tray (or on your desk), you were supposed to deal with it the FIRST time you touched it, hence the name – […]
I know what you’re thinking… This is just another motivational play on words. It’s not. I mean it, I’m dead serious. This is one of the most important time management lessons I learned early on in my career. When I got out of university and the whole world lay in front of me and my […]
You might have noticed a theme in the last few blog posts – toxic staff… You might think I am anti “employees”, but you’d be wrong. The problem does not lie solely with staff, but with who hired them in the first place. Once someone has been hired, it’s increasingly harder to get rid of […]