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Taking Risk Personally

It is essential that you consider and apply strategic and analytical models to evaluate risk. However, don't forget, at the end of the day, you're dealing with people. As much as the quantitative metrics drive the thinking of senior management relating to what they...

Beyond 10,000 Hours.

You’ve likely heard of the 10,000 hours concept popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers.  The research relating to this discovery was actually done by Anders Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University. His research revealed another...

Growth Through Learning

Everything I know now is because someone taught me. This may seem like a statement of the obvious but think about this for a moment. Everything that you know today, everything that you do, the habits you've acquired, your ability to do things well, was likely taught...

There Are No “Secrets” To Success

Are you tired of the simplistic infographic 7 Steps to Leadership Success? You’ve seen them. I see them all the time when someone posts the 5, or 7 or 10 keys or secrets to success, joy, peace, and happiness. Really, is it that simple? NO. You’ll see hundreds or even...

What Does Success Mean to YOU?

Are you chasing after someone else’s definition of ‘success’? If you don’t have your own description of success, relating to goals you’d like to achieve, things you aspire to do, or the type of person you want to be, you might be pursuing things that once obtained or...

Trustworthy Leadership

Trust is the key for building successful employee relationships; it is also the driving factor for success in personal relationships. The absence of trust is a one-way ticket to failure. People in general, as well as employees and customers, are more suspicious than...

Leaders Are Readers

The headline of an email caught my eye. “People who read business books make more money – a lot more!” The article continues and states that “According to a number of studies, businesspeople, who read at least 7 business books a year earn over 2.3 times more than...

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