Tweet Bill Gates, Microsoft’s founder, and the richest person in the world by several billion dollars, is convinced that the huge access to information will trickle down to the consumer. In another two years, he predicts, most decisions such as hiring a part-time worker for your home, buying a consumer product, choosing a lawyer – [...]

Tweet Too many people miss the point of what they do.  They spend all day working hard at their jobs and forget what they are trying to accomplish as a business.  This thought came to me as I was getting ready to work out at my local gym.  As I was putting on my shoes, [...]

Tweet Have you noticed that some workers receive more promotions and greater pay than do their colleagues?  This, despite the fact that they are apparently not even as competent. This doesn’t seem fair. Why should some people get ahead when others who seem to be working far harder, and even longer hours, get passed over [...]

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 [...]

Tweet If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great challenge of life. What’s [...]

Tweet The purpose of man is in action not thought – Thomas Carlyle Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am, but in an equation [...]