Archive for Strategy

Selling in Tough Times

Selling in Tough Times Unless you’re in specific markets, you’ve seen your business all but dry up and blow away.

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Speeding Innovation and Value Creation for Competitive Advantage

Value creation shows up as increased profits, clear competitive advantage, and loyal customers. Value is one of the four pillars of executive

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Valor: The Underrated Executive Skill

How do you approach tough situations? Do you hit them head on? Or do you wait until it becomes a crisis and deal with

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Do NOT Share Your Strategic Plans!

DO NOT SHARE your strategic plans with your team! What do I mean by this? You might be surprised to discover that this advice

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Your Strategic Initiatives

What are your three strategic initiatives for the next six months? I routinely ask this question to all of my executive coaching

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The Leadership Law of the Lid

Do you know about “The Law of the Lid?” Leadership guru, John Maxwell talks about how your leadership ability is

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Reducing Business Friction

What causes business friction keeps you from optimum business success. As an executive coach, I work with my clients to

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Five Steps to Drive Results

What do you want most as an executive? Results! If you’re not demanding results, you’re running a hobby, not a

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The Profit Equation: How to Predict and Capture More Profits

The Profit Equation: How to Predict and Capture More Profits Every effective executive focuses on optimizing profits because it rewards

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Business Secrets of Franchises: Learning from the First KFC in China

My jaw dropped when I learned he opened the first KFC in China! I’m talking about Don Pierce, who ran

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