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Words of Wisdom for Leaders and Wanna Bes - Click To Read Article
Leaders need followers to be what they are. Learn eight practical steps to becoming a superior leader. Boiling leadership down to eight everyday skills may be an exaggeration, but it is a beginning. Read it you will benefit.

How Emotional Intelligence Affects Leadership Quality - Click To Read Article
Eight skills contribute to superior leadership. Emotional Intelligence is an essential ingredient to superior leadership but there are eight specific emotional intelligence skills that drive superior leaders. You can screen for these specific leadership skills and coach leaders to higher performance.

4 Steps to Controlling Bad Emotions - Click To Read Article
Emotions cost companies billions of dollars every year in lost productivity. Yet, few organizations have any training or education programs to help people recognize and manage emotions. Raising the level of Emotional Intelligence within an organization translates into increased profits and we can all use some of those.

6 Steps to More Sales - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs are often sales challenged. Here is a sales system for entrepreneurs that actually works. Learn how to replicate sales without being directly involved through the development of a sales system.

Ideas and Innovation-The Engine and the Fuel of Entrepreneurship - Click To Read Article
Ideas and innovation are essential building blocks for a successful entrepreneurial or business start-up. Ideas are the engins and innovation the fuel. Capture seven ways you and your organization can encourage more and better ideas and innovation.

Winning at Your Next Job-Simply Working Hard May Be The Answer - Click To Read Article
Nobody ever starts a new job with a goal to fail. Everyone wants to be a winner. Yet, most fail of at best are found among the mediocre. Why, is a good question? Many fail to recognize that thier talent is never enough. Hard work trumps Talent, every time-Tim Tebow

Steps to Raising Money for Your New Venture - Click To Read Article
Raising money can be intimidating, especially if you are new at it. Learn the documents you need to prepare, in advance to maximize your chances of getting everything you want from investors. Prepare a "One Line Pitch," develop a Business Summary, and craft a Power-Point presentation that motivates rather than putting potential investors asleep.

The Entrepreneurs Coaching Center-The Power of the Master Mind - Click To Read Article
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and Mahatma Gandhi all have something in common-An understanding of the value of the Master Mind. Entrepreneurs are in a position to capatalize and leverage the Master Mind concept. Starting a business is often a lonely job and pushes many to their limit. The Master Mind group concept, if done properly, can expand and leverage the knowledge and talent of the Entrepreneur.

Five Steps to Good Strategy - Click To Read Article
Possibly more organizations fail because of bad strategy than those who fail because of no strategy. Bad strategy happens all the time to every organization and if left to its own means can destroy an organization. Bad strategy can be characterized by executives failing to face real problems or simply by lack of clarity. Learn how to craft good strategy.

Strategic Hiring-What If Tomorrow Doesn't Resemble Today? - Click To Read Article
We live in times of exponential growth, yet we act as if tomorrow will be just like today. It will not! To do more that just survive, to excel in the future, organization must start building the environment that will allow them to distance themselves from their competition. Strategic thinking is requred and effective implementation critical. Find those thind that need be in play to become the very best.

A Five Point Strategy for Job Creation - Click To Read Article
Most of the net new jobs in the last decade have come from business startup less than 5 years old. Yet, the number of startups, in 2010, was at an all time low. We present a strategy to return the startup numbers to their pre-recession highs in 2006. Entrepreneurs are key to returning unemployment to a reasonable 5%-7%.

Four Stages of Startup Development - Click To Read Article
The Startup Genome project is a study of 650 startup companies in an attempt to understand why some startups suceed and others do not. The authors of the Startup Genome project aid significantly in understanding how and why startups develop and succeed or fail.

Business and Personal Goals - 4 Steps to Success and Happiness - Click To Read Article
The progressive movement toward a goal brings happiness and a sense of well-being. Yet, few people ever really set goals much less writing them down. There are four steps to goal setting.

Happy Sales People are Superior Sales People - Click To Read Article
If you want to increase your successes in hiring sales people for your team, look for a high level of Happiness and Well-being. Research has identified Happiness and an essential piece producing high performing sales people.

Six Factors to Entrepreneurial Success - Click To Read Article
Most of the new jobs added to this economy over the last years have been from Start-ups. But business start-ups are risky. What can be done to enhance the success of these start-ups? Here are six factors found to be consistent among most successful start-ups.

How to Hire and Keep a Motivated Sales Force - Click To Read Article
Organizations depend upon sales to survive. Hiring a keeping a motivated sales force is a coveted achievement. Learn four tips that will improve the quality of your hire and your ability to keep them.

Motivation-How to Get It, Enhance It and Keep It - Click To Read Article
Some feel motivation is an emotion and promoted by external means, but the real and lasting motivation comes from within. Why do so many organizations struggle with motivation? Here is a simple four step process that will add dollars to your organization's bottom line.

Entrepreneurs and Success-Seven Qualities that Matter Most - Click To Read Article
Entreperneurs and start-up add more jobs than any other source. What makes and Entrepreneur successful. Read of these 7 qualities essential to entrepreneurial success.

A Remedy to An Attitude of Entitlement - Click To Read Article
Younger workers often portray an attitude of entitlement. Should you organization feel fortunate to have you as an employee? Read about four ways to eliminate the attitude of entitlement in your organization.

IQ vs. EQ - Which Can Determine Your Success - Click To Read Article
For many years, it was thought that cognitive intelligence (IQ), was an indicator of success. Today there is a "new kid on the block" that may be equally important and possibly even more important in predicting success in a given job. Learn more about this facinating topic of Emotional Intelligence.

Writing Job Descriptions That Get The Results You Want - Click To Read Article
Most job descriptions are notorious for collecting dust and impotent when it comes to spurring superior performance. Superior performance begins with the script, knowing what the job expectation actually are. For and effective job description, go beyond the dos and haves of the job.

Five Things Investors Want to Know - Click To Read Article
Many good ideas never get to market because of a lack of knowledge about what is important to potential investors. Here is a list of five important topics, about which investors want to know that you are an expert.

Entrepreneurs and Leadership-How Important Is It? - Click To Read Article
Leadership is not essential to early phases of a start-up. Passion, planning, vision and attention to detail are more important.

Ledership Vs. Followership - Click To Read Article
A strange paradox; America wants better leaders but invests nothing in followership.

Five Steps to Startup Success - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs fail at an astonishing rate, yet they keep coming. Here are 5 steps that significantly improve the rate of success.

A Race Is On and You Are In It - Click To Read Article
The U.S. has fallen behind in preparing our young people to compete in the global economy. U.S. companies competing on a global basis sell more product internationally and hire more people in other countries that they do in America. It is not their fault. It is our fault and responsibility to do something about it.

Why Should I Become an Entrepreneur? - Click To Read Article
Five powerful reasons to become an Entrepreneur.

The Entrepreneurial "Perfect Storm" - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs are challenged from the beginning. Paying attention to these three areas will bring you greater success.

Hire The Right Person, The First TIme - Click To Read Article
Competition for talent is already stiffening, driving hiring cost up and making it critically important to hire the right person the first time.

Ten Strategies to Keep Good People - Click To Read Article
As economic conditions improve, people will become more interested in looking at other opportunities. Be proactive and protect your best people, now.

Entrepreneur's Coaching Center-When Optimism is Bad - Click To Read Article
One would almost think that optimism was essential to business success. No so say the panel of experts. Optimism can be responsible for failure. See what the experts have to say.

Three Core Work Habits of High Performers - Click To Read Article
There is a difference between mediocre and superior performance. Some say superior performers are 7 times more productive than the bediocre.

How To Succeed In Your Start-Up Business - Click To Read Article
Learn how others have succeeded in their start-up businesses. read about the keys to entrepreneuria; success of others. Find three keys that enhance success in difficult start-up situations.

How to Succeed in Business, Without Setting Your Hair On Fire - Click To Read Article
Most start-up businesses fail. Learn what you can do to beat the odds. Learn from the successes. Solve the problems before they become problems. Decide on products, pricing and passion before you begin.

Will Your Organization Survive? - Click To Read Article
For over 2 years now, organizations have been reducing employee count and attempting to get more from fewer resources. Times change. When the future becomes clearer the cash, on the sidelines will begin to enter the game. When that happens expect the greatest "talent rush" of our lifetime. Here is how to prepare to take advantage instead of being taken advantage of.

EI - The Most Powerful Tool in Your Kit - Click To Read Article
Getting more with fewer resources is a mantra in today's workplace. Emotional Intelligence plays a big part in personal and corporate productivity. Emotional assessment, training and education can play a big role in the effort to get more (productivity) with fewer resources.

Entrepreneur's Coaching Center - Knock their Socks Off (customer service that counts) - Click To Read Article
Satisfied customers buy from the competition. Customer loyalty is created by customer service that creates apostles among your customers. Customers that buy once, twice, three times and tell their friends about their wonderful experience. You want some of them. A lot of them. Here is how to begin.

Customer Service-What Could You Do With an Extra Half-a-Million Dollars? - Click To Read Article
Could customer service trump sales as a growth strategy of your company. There are many good companies but few superior, when it comes to customer retention. Here is a plan that will double your growth.

Hiring People that Can Really Sell-Three Things You Need to Know - Click To Read Article
Corporate America spends millions on hiring the wrong sales people. If you and your organization have ever made a mistake in hiring sales people you will know the cost. Here are 3 systems that will add real money to your top and bottom line.

Performance Management-How Your Sales Team Can Benefit - Click To Read Article
No one can benefit more from performance management than your sales team. Take this 3 pronged approach and achieve improved sales results immediately.

Talent Management - Is the Investment Worth It? - Click To Read Article
Organization spend millions to find talented people and then watch them leave for a competitor. Stop the exodus of talent from your organization. If you are not adding value to your key employees they are thinking about leaving.

Sales Performance Management-How to Get More Sales with Fewer People - Click To Read Article
Many organization have just been through draconian cuts of both budget and staff. Now executives are searching for way to add to revenues but faced with fewer people to do it. Here are five easy steps that with positively impact sales in more way than simply increasing them.

Nurturing Nature-Does Your Brain Need a Workout? - Click To Read Article
Millions of brain cells die every day. If you are not replacing them with new healthy cells your brain will atrophy like any other muscle. Learn how to grow new brain cells and keep your brain healthy.

Five Big Mistakes Hiring Managers Make and How to Avoid Them - Click To Read Article
The role of "Hiring Manager" is a key position. It is the gateway to the organization's future. If you are good at the selection and hiring process you will likely have a bright future. If you are not you likely will not. Read about Five Big Mistakes Hiring Managers Make And How You Can Avoid Them.

EQ Vs. IQ-It is not what you know but what you show that counts! - Click To Read Article
How much you know may get you the job but what you do will determine your success. What and how you do what you do is greatly dependent upon .....

Leadership with a Small "L" - Click To Read Article
There have been only a few great leaders in our lifetime. Leaders like Reagan, Churchill, Disney, and Welch to mention a few. They could never have risen to the hieghts they did without the many small "L" leaders that backed them up. It is from the pool of small "L" leaders that the great leaders emerge. Learn how to grow leaders from seed.

Entrepreneur's Coaching Center - Do you have what it takes? - Click To Read Article
In times of perpetual talk about job creation interesting facts come to lignt. For instance, did you know that most new jobs, in today's economy, come from young firms (3 -5) years old. Entrepreneurs are important if for now other reason than they are responsible for the creation of new job and more so than any other sector. Most think entrepreneurship is easy, think again. There are very certain and specific qualities that determine success. Learn three categories of skills, values and behaviors that characterize entrepreneurs.

EQ Vs. IQ-Hiring People Who Can do More than Just the Job - Click To Read Article
Emotional Intelligence is an essential to success on the job. Perhaps as much as 75% or more of a person's success on the job can be attributed to Emotional Intelligence. In many knowledge based jobs, IQ is necessary to get the job, but Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is essential to success in those jobs.

Entrepreneur's Success Center- The Business Plan - Click To Read Article
You wouldn't travel from your home or place of business to Brazil without a plan to get there. Too many businesses fail for lack of a plan. The plan does not have to be perfect but it does need to be flexible. Develop a plan and increase your successes. This brief article lays out the essential of a business plan.

Emotional Intelligence-Hiring People Who Can Do More Than Just The Job - Click To Read Article
Emotional Intelligence is an essential to success on the job. Perhaps as much as 75% or more of a person's success on the job can be attributed to Emotional Intelligence. In many knowledge based jobs, IQ is necessary to get the job, but Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is essential to success in those jobs.

Entrepreneur's Success Center- Six Steps to Marketing Success - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs need marketing help Entrepreneurial success is often achieved on the back of a sound marketing plan. Here is a six step marketing plan that never fails. Great information for the entrepreneur that has no formal marketing training. Follow this plan and become the "lead dog."

Living Inside Two Boxes-The power of Self-Image - Click To Read Article
Self-Image, how we view ourselves, is the gateway to superior performance. Our Self-Image will not allow us to achieve anything beyond what we believe we can. As Earl Nightingale once said, "We become what we think about."

The Stars Among Us-How to Find Them! - Click To Read Article
In recent economic times, many have been asked to get better results with fewer resources. Here is a quick and easy way to do so. Find the superior performers among the average!

Entrepreneur's Success Center- Why Businesses Fail - Click To Read Article
Businesses fail in great numbers. The more recent the start-up date the more the odds of success are against you. The odds of success are slim and you will need to be prepared. In this series of Entrepreneurial insights and helps you will increase your chances of success.

Assertive Manager Win - Click To Read Article
Often managers are less effective than they could be simply be cause they are trying to be too "politically correct." Frequently, employees suffer because they are not certain what is wanted. Learn to clearly state your wants and needs. Become a more effective and admired manager.

Knowing your Next Sales Hire Will Be a Great One - Click To Read Article
Many struggle with knowing what to look for when hiring sales people. Struggle no longer. Here are proven sales selection methods that will aid you in building a dynamic sales team

Talent Is Worthless, Performance is Priceless! - Click To Read Article
Everyone wants to be a winner. No one works to come in last. Read about a simple strategy to move average performers to superior performers.





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