Archive for September, 2010


3 Tips on How to Improve Your Team’s Self Esteem

I have heard more times than I can count, “You get what you expect out of life.”  I have heard people say they don’t expect good things to happen for them.  If they do, they think it will jinx them.  They believe healthy self esteem, somehow it is cocky, ego driven and wrong. When we [...]

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How to Handle Negativity and Develop a Team with Positive Attitudes

I have worked for many years in the corporate world leading top notch sales teams.  I have, also, had the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial sales teams.  One thing that I have found to be true with both is, working with people with a positive attitude is huge!  I have had people tell me that watching [...]

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What is the Difference Between a Manager and A Leader?

Since the beginning of time, humans have figured out that together everyone achieves more.  Together, they could create a group environment and split up the work load.  The team was born.  A team doesn’t work strictly in the business environment.  It works any time people need to get together to do anything, with an objective [...]

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Do You Use the Two Little Words that Keep You From Success?

There are two words in the English language, used together, are responsible for business that failures, paintings which never reach the canvas, and pinnacles of success that are never attained.  These two words seem so innocent.  As if saying them we are automatically exonerated from any efforts to reach inside of ourselves and pull out [...]

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Is a Positive Attitude Really THAT Important to A Team?

The other day, I was browsing through a catalog and I ran across a sign that said, “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.  A little  bit of tongue in cheek humor.  Or is it?  It got me thinking about the two different management styles; positive versus negative. Many managers make the mistake of passing [...]

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5 Tips on How to Stop Criticism From Killing Your Business

When we are children, we are conditioned to care very deeply what the “popular kids” think of us.  Because of our deep fear of criticism starting at an early age we continue to allow ourselves to actually care what people think about us.  I believe this is one of the biggest killers of the entrepreneurial [...]

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What is Important for a Successful Career?

The path to a successful career can lead right through the dump.  When we start our careers of choice, there’s always a learning curve to contend with.  This learning curve can send us right through the dump of doubt, frustration and delays.  Wouldn’t it be amazing to decide what we are going to do, and [...]

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