It’s hard to be anywhere these days without hearing the anguished voice of uncertainty in people all around us. Everyone, it seems, is talking about the bad economy and the financial markets. Everybody, it appears, is worried at some level.…
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way!
What do you do when your best isn’t good enough? When achieving excellence seems like an unachievable pipe dream? You must seek to develop a force from within that transcends any challenge in your path. That immovable force is WILLPOWER.…
Entrepreneurs Get Advice from the Experts – Video Interview of Scott Klososky
Scott Klososky is interviewed about the challenges and rewards of being an entrepeneur. Once you have a great idea, how do you pursue it, when should you think about funding, and what does it take for someone to become a successful…
Principled Living
People without principles are like boats without rudders and cars without steering wheels. Their direction in life is aimless and their decisions are haphazard. However, when principles occupy the center of your life, they help you arrive quickly at the…
Tagged with: Success
10 Qualities of Keepers
“Keepers” is the term I’ve applied to productive employees. These are the folks that you love to have in any company, whether you are a coworker, a customer or its owner. Keepers are people who you want more of. You…
Tagged with: Jim Cathcart
Finding the Inner Strength
The era of COVID 19 has turned our world upside down. I recently gave a Zoom talk to 500 plus sales people. This hyper successful company sold innovative home energy saving products with the door to door sales approach; A…
The Power of Vision
Someone once said: “If you can’t predict the future, invent it.” That is what has been happening in technology and on the internet. People are inventing new pathways like a company called Google, originally a leader in search technology on…
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Controlling Change
If a company is going to stay in business, it has to change, and that can be scary. Many people see change as threatening. To them, it is the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator…
Tagged with: Motivation
Innovation Economics
I read an article the other day that talked about the concept of Innovation Economics. The description being the conscious practice of investing in innovation as a method for driving economic prosperity. I love how the author stated clearly that…
Technology and the Down Economy
Negative economic times generally have an interesting impact on technology tools because the resources dry up and organizations have less ability to take risks and buy new toys. So they replace this with learning how to use their current tools…
Leadership in Turbulent Times – an Interview with Howard Putnam
Turmoil in the financial markets and the threat of a recession are adding to the many challenges that healthcare finance executives must deal with. When leading during turbulent times, “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” says Howard Putnam, former CEO of Southwest Airlines…
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Intelligent Motivation System
Intelligent Motivation(tm): is determining what is important, identifying what action is needed and doing what is necessary to generate and sustain that action. Conscious, Intentional & Relentless Action The more I work on “Intelligent MotivationTM the better shape it takes. …
Mind over Mattress
10 Tips to Stay Committed to Your New Year’s Fitness Resolution Since I continue to perform on the pommel horse every time I speak (and because people who are good at math realize my Olympic experience was quite a few…
Growing Older Successfully
THINK AND WHENI long to be the person that I would like to be.But if I’m going to do it, it’s entirely up to me.And, I think the time to start is not some distant dayNow is the time to…
Tagged with: Art Holst
Success Can Be Yours in 2009
Wherever I go, I find people who have encountered failure after failure and wonder why. “Is it possible for me to achieve success, given my level of talent and education?” they ask. “You can if you want to,” I tell…
Intelligent Motivation for a Challenging World
Once on a plane my seatmate asked what I did for a living. When I told him I was a motivational speaker he replied, “I don’t believe in motivation because it doesn’t last.” The flight attendant standing nearby said, “Neither…
Ten Essential Leadership Attributes
What kind of leadership talents and skills will be essential to succeed in the next few years? Some are tried and true and endure generation after generation. Others come and go with the age and culture in which we live.…
Content is the New Democracy
Here is a quote I have been preaching in speeches these days, “Content is the new democracy and we the people are insuring that our our voices are heard.” This wisdom is from Brian Solis who is an expert on…
Tagged with: Scott Klososky
Financial Literacy Matters
If we really take the time to examine the core reason behind our recent economic turmoil, we can see the reality of the situation is actually quite different from what the pundits say. Most of the press coverage points the…
Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era
In October of 2008 our markets and institutions experienced a permanent shift. That’s twice now since the Millennium that the game has changed. On September 11, 2001 I was shocked into the awareness that not only had we experienced a…