Tweet With Steve Jobs announcing his resignation from Apple, I want to take a look at one of his final lessons.  Knowing Steve Jobs, the title may be premature.  The man has made more comebacks that anyone can keep track of, but it seems like a good time to reflect on his final leadership lesson [...]

Tweet Growing up most of us were taught to tell the truth. Remember: “Honesty is the best policy”. But as time passed we watched adults lie and get away with it. We learned that sometimes when you tell the truth people get upset. And because most people want to avoid confrontation and conflict, we stopped [...]

Tweet A reader of this column sent me an email recently, thanking me for a column I had written on getting outside the box. She then told me how she had lost focus for a while, but had turned things around. She encouraged me to write a column on staying focused. I immediately thought of [...]

Tweet How do you define a life-threatening situation? Is it when someone pulls a knife on you? Or when someone has taken your future away by taking your savings? Most people consider a life threatening situation one where you’re facing immediate death. What about when you don’t have the financial resources to take care of [...]

Tweet There is a ‘secret key’ to peak personal productivity and performance that entrepreneurs are unwittingly depriving themselves of, to a worsening extent from one year to the next. This subtle form of self-sabotage takes its toll many different ways. Entrepreneurs and sales professionals need ‘resiliency.’ We face opposition, we experience rejection and disappointment, we [...]