The right FIVE words are more powerful than five thousand. It’s more important than ever to tell your story—you just have to say it in a couple sentences or less. An interview by Nettie Hartsock with Bill Schley, author of “Why Johnny Can’t Brand” and “Micro-Script Rules”
Leaders deal in ideas. They also deal in ideals. The more relevant and significant the ideas may be, the greater and the more substantial are the opportunities and the challenges and the need for leaders to create the ideals only once merely imagined.
For a fighter pilot in combat, speed is everything. It improves maneuverability, allows faster target engagement, and it can be ‘converted’ to a higher altitude for better situational awareness of the battlefield. By combat-decorated fighter pilot and best-selling author Waldo Waldman.
Employees in even the most menial jobs will help their managers look good and succeed – if only the manager will give them the opportunity and appreciate their integrity.
Unmotivated employees have rightly been called “the black holes of the business universe.” Fortunately, motivation is not something a person is born with or without. Applying these Ten Commandments can go a long way to helping existing employees find their motivation.
Let me be the first to say it: The time to panic is NOW. The mad cow has replaced the French poodle; swine flu has become the H1N1 virus (so we can keep the pork industry political correct); and “foot in mouth” disease has run rampant worldwide, creating an unstoppable global pandemic that …
When a person is confronted with some significant event or experience that is believed to be both important and uncertain they may feel anxious. This anxiety-generating situation may be one that is filled with possibility and opportunity, or danger and threat. Either way, anxiety almost always develops when there is significant opportunity – or danger
Analogies of various military strategies have been used to illustrate marketing and selling mechanisms and means. Certain ideas of military strategy are important for all who are engaged in commercial competitive activities.
It’s been said that to be a successful salesperson, not only do your listening skills have to be great, but your closing skills have to be even better. They’re not essential. But being a leader is.
An in-depth interview with Michael Lang, best known as co-creator of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. Michael has produced festivals in East Berlin, the concert at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Woodstock 94 and Woodstock 99. — By Nettie Hartsock
The “secret” to team work and team building lies in the possessive pronoun “our.” When work becomes ours, obstacles become ours, and our successes are celebrated, people “naturally” become team members. But people — at work or in civic activities — usually need a catalyst, someone who says “our. ”– By Dr. Woody Sears
There’s a war going on in American business. It’s a war that causes great ideas and products to vanish. To get lost in the clear fog of logical logic. A devastatingly destructive war that helps bad ideas take root and flourish (albeit briefly) justified by common sense and … logical logic. It’s Left-Brain Management vs. Right-Brain Marketing.
What does that mean? How does it work? What to do about it? Find out in this interview with bestselling authors Al and Laura Ries.
A Steve Jobs presentation has all the elements of a great theatrical production—a great script, heroes and villains, stage props, breathtaking visuals, and one moment that makes the price of admission well worth it. How does he do it?
“The meeting is at 2 p.m. I’ll e-mail you a copy of the agenda, your personal agenda and the hidden agenda.”
We’ve all had them. We’ve all met them. Dumb bureaucrats and insufferable bosses. But how to deal with them? Here are three time-proven leadership lessons not to take for “Grant-ed.”
