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The 85% Solution: Choosing Accountability—Three Steps to Owning Your Success at Work and in Life  
by Linda Galindo

If your mind-set is that you’re at least 85% responsible for your success—and that just 15% could depend on the way the wind blows—you can get the results you’re looking for. If not, odds are, you blame your problems and failures—big or small, personal or professional—on other people, “circumstances beyond my control,” or just plain bad luck. The good news? Accountability is not only a mind-set—it’s also a skill-set that everyone can learn. It may not be as easy as one-two-three, but it is a three-step process.

Living in More Than One World: Work-life Lessons From the Legendary Peter Drucker
by Bruce Rosenstein

Peter Drucker—“the father of modern management”—turned management theory into a serious discipline. Yet, today, most people don’t know that Drucker’s teachings on personal growth—or self-management—are as profound as his views on organizational management. This wisdom, while a recurring theme in Drucker’s work, had remained scattered throughout his myriad writings—until now.

Marketing Strategies: 7 Tips to Creating Success From the "Inside Out"
by Maya Bailey, Ph.D.

Why do most business owners fail to achieve their dreams and reach their financial goals? Is it a lack of motivation, a lack of drive or a lack of business know how? In my 12 years of coaching business owners to double and triple their incomes, I have found that none of the above is the reason they fail. Instead, it is the presence of self-limiting beliefs, many of which are hidden, that stop business owners in their tracks.

The Power of Patterns
by Anne Riches

In order to change and to build leadership skills, we must develop and hone the ability to reflect on our patterns, good and bad, and assess their impact on others and how much they contribute towards our goals. Sometimes understanding this can be the most important step we can take towards becoming a great manager.

Procrastination, Ignorance and Life-long Learning
by Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D.

Procrastination kills more than time.  At a deeper level, it kills confidence, drains energy, and squelches innovation. It’s the state of being frozen, like an insect trapped in amber, in the face of a problem which has us stumped.  It’s a symptom of a more serious malady, and unless we address it at its root cause, we’ll continue to suffer.

New Learners for the New Economy
by Kirsten Olson

What qualities do you need as a learner to adapt to our new economy? What learning attributes do employers seek in the flatter, fragmented, and constantly changing workplace? Based on a book I just wrote, it's clear many of the ways we were taught to be learners in school are directly in contrast to the qualities we need in today's economy and job market.

Ten Tips to Creating a New Life Direction
by Laura Berman Fortgang

In her new book  Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully with hundreds of clients to help them make major changes in their lives. Here are ten tips to help discover a new direction for your life. 

Making a Successful Career Transition
by Lucille Maddalena, Ed.D.

Now is the time to choose your path to begin the next new phase of your career. The impact of personal and job transitions affect our self-image, relationships, and confidence, as well as the roles we accept in life activities. Let's begin by exploring self-branding.

Jumping to Conclusions
by Anne Riches

The science tells us that we make snap judgments about people's trustworthiness and competence as part of our survival system. However we need to remember today that when our brains developed this safety mechanism we weren't dealing with customers and employees and divorce laws hadn't been drafted!

His Boss Was a Woman, and Other Irrational Reactions
by Anne Riches

Primarily our responses are emotional and irrational. The amygdala is the first to receive the stimuli and the first to react. The frontal lobe then kicks in with a more appropriate response. In between times, the transmission can get a little blurry and this is where The Almond Effect takes over.

The Am I a Soloist? Quiz
by Jonathan Littman & Marc Hershon

How do you know if you're a Soloist, or at least destined to become one? The easiest sniff test is how many times a day you mutter, shout, or even think to yourself, "I hate people!" But not all People Haters are necessarily Soloists.  This quiz will help determine the depth of your Soloist leanings. The higher your score, the more Soloist blood in your veins.

The High Cost of Gutlessness
by Anne Riches

Courage is persevering despite fear. It is gumption, grit, and the capacity to get up after a setback, with one's heart on fire. Courage is an essential virtue, a source of strength that contributes to all significant human endeavors. Every great accomplishment requires courage... courage simply is "making the decision to do what you know is right."

Warning: What You Don't Consciously Remember Could Mess With Your Career
by Anne Riches

Have you ever seen people at work react to something in a totally illogical way? The role that emotional memory plays in our everyday interactions and reactions is profound. Not only do our emotional memories cause us to react to perceptions of physical threat but also to certain people and events as well.

How to Get Everything You Want in Business and in Life by Having B.A.L.L.S.
by Sandy Grason

When I stopped to look at some of the amazing and FUN things that I've experienced in my life, I noticed that often times 'it' required me to step out of my comfort zone- sometimes in a major way. So I came up with these tips and inspirations gleaned from my new favorite compliment.

Confronting Your Fears
by Donald J. Trump

An antidote to fear is as simple as problem solving. Whether you have investing, estate planning, or running a business on your mind, or all of those things, they can be broken down into units of thought and dealt with in an orderly manner. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle -- you need to find the right place for each piece of the puzzle until the whole is apparent.

What’s Your Worry? Using Thoughts to your Advantage
by Mary J. Lore

Powerful thoughts keep us in a state of vision and possibility, moving us in the direction of what we want, even in the most difficult times. When we practice managing our thoughts, we are at peace and inspired. It is then that the ideas on how to handle or transcend difficulty shine through and we know the right thing to do. It is then that we achieve significant results.

The “Vision Thing” — Critical to Accelerating Women’s Careers
by Suzanne Bates

In today’s economic environment, companies need great leaders. Yet lately much public conversation has focused on whether our economic crisis has been partly the result of too much “leadership testosterone,” both on the trading floors and in the boardrooms of banks and investment firms. Would a more balanced male-female presence have made a difference in averting the current crisis?

Managing Personalities at Work
by Anne Riches

It is important for anyone who is managing or working with a group of people to understand the role The Almond Effect ® plays in the workplace. It gives us insight into other employees as well as our own leadership style. The Almond Effect ® is when we react without thinking, saying or doing things that we regret afterwards.

My Organization Divorced Me!
by Tamara Strickland

I am the woman "that didn't see it coming." I thought the relationship was committed and we had all the characteristics of a great partnership and would continue our bond for years to come. Then I began to suspect that maybe there were underlying issues between us but had full faith that we would focus on the long term and pull through. But after our twenty three years together, via e-mail, you broke up with me! My organization is leaving me for another suitor.

Making Certain Moves in an Uncertain Marketplace
by Marshawn Evans

Regardless of whether you're a business owner, entrepreneur, or recent grad, the marketplace has everyone uncertain about what tomorrow will hold, but there are a few things that we as women (this applies for guys as well!) can keep in mind to be sure that we are equipped and protected in spite of these uncertain times.

Flinchlessness
by Vince Poscente

You flinch . . .  you lose. Imagine skiing at over 130 mph on skis and you catch an edge. One instinctive flinch to catch your balance and you lose any chance at winning the race.  The challenge is overcoming the protective instinct to throw your hands out for balance while maintaining stability and maintaining your line. How then do you overcome instinct and not flinch?

Keeping Resolutions
by Mary J. Lore

It's about that time when we begin to break the resolutions we made at the beginning of the year. For many of us, this happens year after year and some of us have gotten to the point where we don't even bother to make resolutions. This gentle reminder offers some guidance to help you reformulate your resolutions in order to keep them.

Meaningful Work: Where Do I Look?
by Nina Ham

Meaning has so many dimensions and is so subjective that very few rules can be written about how to achieve it.  Shifting an attitude or perspective, mentoring a younger staff member, challenging yourself to grow in some respect, may be all that's required to find new meaning and satisfaction.   Once you clarify where meaning lies for you, you can be intentional about creating it and savor the fulfillment of achieving it.

Choosing Our Intentions
by Mary J. Lore

When we practice self-awareness, even in difficult times, we can see these thoughts for what they are—thoughts. We know that we are the observer of these thoughts and we can choose whether to utilize these thoughts or not. We can choose our intentions.

The Predicament of Personal Finance
by Estienne de Beer

Generally most, if not all of us, want and crave for something better and to improve our lifestyles. It is part of us to want a bigger car, a better house, to buy good things for the family. We keep hoping for more but, in order to get what you don’t have, you’ve got to do something you have never done before. All of us have heard the cliché before that it is insane to do the same thing over and over again and every time expect better results!

Great Shark Expectations
by Anne Riches
I would like to talk about how life's little surprises can sometimes catch us out - and what to do about it! In particular I'm going to talk about the role of expectations at work, and how that relates to my search for Great White Sharks in the Neptune Islands, off Port Lincoln in South Australia.

Breaking Old Habits
by Mary J. Lore
Have you noticed that as you move into the holiday season, old, familiar patterns emerge? Perhaps you feel sad and alone at the holidays, or maybe you often get sick or worry about money. There’s a reason that we have the same experiences over and over again, and with a little self-awareness, a little self-mastery and a little being-on-purpose, we can break those patterns.

The New Global Marketplace Requires the Versatility of a Swiss Army Knife
by Karla Brandau
Think about the different skill sets you could develop that would make you more valuable to your organization, as valuable as a Swiss Army knife is to the outdoorsman. When you develop skills in addition to your core strengths, you will find the versatility puts you in a unique echelon of achievers.

Beware: The Imposter Phenomenon Is Back
by Lucille Maddalena
Today, women are in positions of power at small businesses and global corporations.  We maintain political offices of importance and influence the development of our society.  This is evidence that norms are changing, but not fast enough for us all. If you find yourself still under the influence of this misperception, now is the time to take action.

LIFT VS. DRAG – A Business Leader’s Perspective
by Waldo Waldman
If you want to reach new heights in business and in life, make sure you do whatever it takes to maximize your lift and minimize your drag. Not only will you avoid the missiles, but you’ll hit your target as well!

Be More Successful: Create "ME INC."
by Karla Brandau
Creating "Me Inc." distinguishes and differentiates you and enables you to shine through the crowd of people vie for promotions or competing for the same customer. As you develop your brand and operate from deep inside, you will become a virtual magnet, pulling people to you who want to do business with you or who will be willing to give you more responsibility in your organization. Through this process, you catapult yourself into an elite league of achievers.

Do You Procrastinate? Or Would You Like to Answer That Later?
by Anne Riches
What is it that holds us back from starting or finishing certain things? What is it that makes us knowingly procrastinate - and then, and here's the worst part, beat ourselves up for doing it? And why is it that so many people seem to share this predicament? The more people I talk to about my growing interest in this topic - the more people say to me: when you find the answer - let me know!

Transition and Change
by Sloan Campbell
We move through life, we make numerous personal transitions inherently knowing how to successfully move from one life milestone to another without missing a beat …  we listen to our little voice and all is well … right? WRONG, I have recently made another type of transition, a professional transition, which has gone about as shaky as any change has ever gone in my life to date. This is an issue for me because I am a firm believer that we must make changes to be able to grow in our personal or professional lives.

What! Luck Comes from Hard Work?
by Karla Brandau

When I complained about my lack of luck to a friend of mine, she quoted Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, who said, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." As you seek for greater levels of success in your life, remember these "Luck Rules."

Downshifting - The Six Step Solution
by Sally Lever
Downshifting is a viable solution for those of us who find maintaining an externally imposed "standard of living" stressful and meaningless. It's about finding a quality of life that transcends all of that and concentrates on living according to our core values. I hope that, whatever your circumstances, you will find here some of the information and inspiration that you need to recognise your dilemma as the wonderful opportunity that it is!

Seven Calculated Choices to Make Your Career Leap Like a Geyser
by Karla Brandau, CSP
Nature in its various manifestations is the man's greatest teacher. The eruption of desire to achieve success in human heart finds its parallel in a geyser. Here are various tips to drill through the rock of inertia and make your life leap like a geyser for your success.

Maximize 4 Meta Talents: Discover the 4 Talents Every Project Needs to be Successful
by Faith Ralston, Ph.D.
In my work as a coach with business leaders I've discovered four meta-talents that are essential for success. Organizations, and especially teams need all 4 meta-talents to implement work projects and change initiatives. Here's a snap shot of these 4 talent types.

Discover Your Sweet Spot: How to Align Your Talents With Pressing Business Needs
by Faith Ralston, Ph.D.
You want to use your talents and add value! The goal is to find the sweet spot - where your best talents align with the needs of the business. When you find the right match, both you and your projects succeed.

The Eight Drivers of Your Best Life
by David M. Traversi
The solution to our worsening societal woes, and conversely our best societal life, is in leadership. Leadership at the societal level begins with leadership of the self. Each of us living our best individual life will flow into our best collective life. It is just a matter of accessing powers – drivers – with which we are already endowed.

Find Your Talent Zone: How to be True to Yourself and Inspire Others
by Faith Ralston, Ph.D.
Everyone has a talent zone. Make a point to find it. Your talent zone is like a jet stream that can propel you and your career into high gear. Once you step on - your career takes on a life of it's own. So jump on - and enjoy the ride.

So Close and Then We Blow It
by Anne Riches
Have you ever been so close to getting something you dearly want? It's within your grasp, you're just about there ... and then you blow it? It could be during an interview for a job. Or it could be selling a proposal at a meeting. Or playing sport - you realise you are just about to win. You have 3 match points and only have to win just one more. You get the idea. But what happens - we blow it, we lose the match, we lose the game, we lose the test. Why?

Avoid Five Career-Limiting Traps: How To Recognize The Pitfalls Even Great Leaders Stumble Into
by Faith Ralston, Ph.D.
In today's market, just knowing your talents isn't enough. Many individuals have great talents but they're not using them. In my work as an executive coach, I've discovered five traps that keep leaders from using their talents. I'm not talking about lackey's here - these are very talented leaders - but they're still vulnerable to these traps.

"On By" - Taking the Risk
by Lucille Maddalena
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by risk? Balancing the odds of success, the investment you've made in relationships, the value of the win -- how do you make your choice? Often it is the actions that others don't see that truly defines winners from losers. Maybe we need an "on by" command for our up-and-coming business leaders to use when they have the passion, the drive, and the commitment to succeed.

You Are Talented - How to Recognize and Appreciate Your Unique Talent Strengths
by Faith Ralston, Ph.D.

When you think about talent, you might think of Michael Jordon or Oprah Winfrey. But do you see yourself as 'talented?' Absolutely everyone has talents. You and the people around you have talents. I want to take the mystique out of our notions about talents. You're already talented so here are some ideas to help you make the most of your talents.

Ten Career Skills to Keep You Employable in the 21st Century
by Karla Brandau, CSP
Some of these skills will be relatively simple and others may be difficult for you to implement. As you improve in each area mentioned above, however, you will increase in confidence and competence and create an environment where you add value to the organization and a need for your personal services. You will have greater job stability.

Career Search Tip: How to Locate and Harvest Your Sweet Spots
by Nina Ham
While there are many tools that offer guidance on this topic, the present discussion focuses on your daily Sweet Spots, those almost mystical moments or situations when you're "in a zone", doing whatever you're doing without effort. Learning to harvest a Sweet Spot, understanding the factors that make it effortless, can yield invaluable information about what you want to be looking for in your next career.

Sustaining Your Success through Personal Adversity: Some Suggested Do's and Don'ts
by Nina Ham
Learning to stay true to your vision of success during personal adversity will greatly enhance your potential for reaching it.   Learn some simple, gentle do's and don'ts of attitude and practice that will help you sustain your success momentum.

Seven Financial Strategies For Transitioning From Salaried to Solo
by Nina Ham

Everyone has to decide for themselves what level of sacrifice and risk they're willing to undertake in order to enjoy the satisfactions of working independently. Knowing these strategies for managing the risk will allow you to make a well-informed decision.

Is Your Definition of Success Broken?
by Nina Ham

Do you have a working definition of success that fits for you, or has the word lost its meaning? Did it once have personal meaning, or was it never truly yours in the first place? Is "success" a dark cloud hovering over you, or a foggy place in your mind you'd rather not visit? And - Is there a hidden cost to letting it remain broken?

Moving Out of a Career Rut
by Jim Clemmer

For professionals “on the grow” middle age can be a time of career renewal. Others can find their careers stagnating. Here are a few symptoms of stunted growth and how they can be rectified.

Overcoming Rejection: Five Secrets for Turning Failure into Success in Six Months Guaranteed!
by Richard Fenton

What if every time you heard the word no, you became stronger, more powerful, and more resilient? What if the greatest success strategy in the world was not to go for yes, but to go for no?

What's So Special About You?
by JoAnna Brandi

What's makes interacting with you so unique, what personal contribution do you make to your relationships? After all, part of what your company is selling in the "customer experience" is you. Do you know what makes you special?

What Are Your Intentions?
by Jerry Stein

If you have a goal or a burning desire and are feeling blocked or frustrated in your pursuit of that goal, I have a couple of ideas that might help you get unstuck. Here are three goals and four questions that can guide you to happiness.

How to Eliminate Workplace Conflict and Instantly Improve Productivity
by Dr. Alan Zimmerman

You don’t have to become the best of friends with that difficult co-worker. You don’t have to spend a lot of time together. Look for your "point of entry," and you’ll get an immediate, positive boost in your working relationships, and a substantial increase in productivity.

An Unexpected Tragedy: People are Happier at Work than at Home
by Anne Riches

What does success look like for you? What does happiness look like for you? What does 'no stress' look like for you? You get the picture. Here are some thought-starters.

A Very Bad Run
by Darlene Pineda

I started running a few months ago, training for a half marathon, and I'm doing an okay job. But sometimes you have bad days. Sometimes you have REALLY bad days.

Helping Your Family Find Success in an Uncertain Future
by Greg Langston

Whether your child is just starting college or is in high school, you want to give him or her every possible advantage. How can you help them avoid walking down the wrong path over and over again until they find the best one?

Building a Legacy: It's Only Too Late If You Never Start
by Greg Langston

By discovering your unique strengths, determining your core values, and directing your future with ambitious lifetime goals, you can achieve amazing success.

Building Positive Attitudes In and Out of The Office: The 4-Day Attitude Diet
by Dr. Alan Zimmerman

Research makes it clear that attitude is more important than any other element when it comes to ensuring success.
So how do you build a positive attitude that ensures your success?

The Value-Added Life: Living the Unique Positive Experience Principle
by Greg Langston

The key to succeeding in all areas of your life is to add value. Whether it is your relationship with your supervisor, spouse, friend, or mentor, constantly providing a Unique Positive Experience is the fuel that keeps the whole process running.

The Quest For Career Success
by Estienne de Beer

You have to understand that you cannot rely solely on the Human Resources Department to drive your career. It is not your boss' job. It is your own responsibility. And guess what? Results rule!

Manager's Corner 2006
by Liz Weber
Liz Weber's regular column in The CEO Refresher provides insightful and actionable tips for managers at all levels. She has experience and a clarity of thinking that will help you become so much more effective in all you do.

The Menace of Micromanagement
by Estienne de Beer

Employees hate micro-management passionately. They want to be inspired and led.

Winners' Wisdom 2006
by Jim Stovall
For a man faced with the challenge of total blindness, Jim Stovall sees very clearly and his insights always illuminate and inspire. (ed.)

Learning: The Art of Improvement is Always a "Process"
by Jay A. Ewing

One thing at a time. Here is a remarkable story of learning the maddeningly magnificent pursuit of golf.

The Perils of Positive Thinking
by Estienne de Beer

Positive thinking without substance is nothing but a fairytale for adults.

Finding a Job: 21st Century Style
by Kenny Moore

I've worked for a heavenly CEO (figuratively speaking) in a New York City Fortune 500 company. Prior to that, I spent 15 years working for another heavenly CEO (literally speaking) as a Catholic priest.
Here's my practical list of worldly and otherworldly advice for getting that perfect job.

Mid-life Crisis - or Finally Figuring Out Your Priorities
by Steven Bryce

You may have a friend or heard of someone who left a really great career in the Corporate World.
Why change your career? What could the benefits of such a change be? Am I an anomaly or an early indicator of a coming trend?

The Power of Choice!
by John Boe

The key to cultivating and maintaining a positive mental attitude is to use your power of choice and take control of your thinking. It's a challenging task to develop a calm, focused mind, but well worth the effort.

Intelligent Optimism Wins in Today's World
by Eileen McDargh

Intelligent optimists understand that change and chaos are given. They know that "this too shall pass". In the meantime, they choose to take whatever action they can within their own sphere of influence.

Made for Success
by Chris Widener

It's all about your ability, motivation, attitude, being ready for opportunity and your focus.

A New Conversation About Dreams - The Power of Intention
by Marcia Wieder

By setting an intention, you make it clear to yourself and others, just what you plan to do. Set an intention to redefine what it means to be serious about your dreams.

Create Your Past
by Chris Widener

Do not relive yesterday. Do everything you can today to make it an incredible day. Whatever you would like to look back on tomorrow and see as your accomplishment, do today.

A New Conversation About Dreams Integrity: The Key to Getting What You Want
by Marcia Wieder

The more your life is in order, the faster and easier your ability to manifest dreams will become. It's just that simple.

Hey You - Watch Your Mouth!
by Chris Widener

Have you ever thought about the way you use your mouth and the results that you see from it? Here are some examples of ways people sabotage themselves with their mouths and some ways to reverse that trend and create success for yourself.

We Need to Find a New Word for Retirement
by Gordon Neufeld

Corporations are beginning to feel the first effects of the new Baby boomer retirement. This new phenomenon will have significant effects on a corporation's abilities to ensure an organized transfer of skills and knowledge between senior executives and newer high potential employees.

Five Tips for a Safe Online Job-Search
by Teena Rose

With the Internet's convenience, a breeding ground for scam artists continues to grow each year as well. Identity thefts have increased to an overwhelming 10 million cases per year, and many of them are the result of phishing - not surprisingly, the employment industry is under attack as well.

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

Coaches and Critics, Beyond Your Imagination, All About Life and Defining Love - Today’s the day!

Work is a Four-Letter Word
by Eileen McDargh

Kahlil Gibran proclaimed, "Work is love made visible". I would further clarify his position by insisting that a job is what you do for a paycheck. Work is what you do for a life.

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

The Churchill Legacy, The Miraculous Age, The 80/20 Rule, Customer Service and Doing Your Best. Today’s the day!

Tips for Effective Leadership
by Wolf Rinke

Effective leaders have the guts to look at what others do … and do something different.

The Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Leadership Skills
by Ronya Banks

If you desire to lead a passion-filled life wherein you are a positive influence to everyone, you will enjoy incorporating the following practices to assist you in consistently living your life as a conscious and strong leader.

Manager's Corner - Your Job, Respect and People Power
by Liz Weber

What's your job as a leader? Do you respect your team enough to change your organization? And do you believe in the power of your people?

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

Out of the Box , Rich as Rockefeller, Who Thinks You’re Crazy? and Worry and Concern. Today’s the day!

Tips for Effective Leadership - Don’t Prove Yourself
by Wolf Rinke

You can have a dramatic impact on an organization and achieve your goals if you forget about proving anything to anyone. Instead, I urge clients to use the following 11 steps during their first 30-60 days in any new leadership position.

To Achieve Your Career Goals Use the Power You Have
by Mariette Edwards

When I asked participants at a recent women's conference focusing on fulfilling potential why they had come out so very early on a Saturday morning, one woman shouted out, "To be empowered." I thought, "Oh, if you only knew the power you have."

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

Training, When Life Defies Definition, Knowledge and Wisdom, and The Prominence of Problems. Today’s the day!

What is your Recovery Rate?
by Graham and Julie Harris

How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviours that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? How long? The longer it takes you to recover the more influence that incident has on your actions, the less able you are to perform to your personal best.

Manager's Corner - Magic Pills, Good Managers and Good Leaders
by Liz Weber

Two focused, concise ideas on how to take your people and organization to the next level of success - "There is No Magic Pill," and "Good Managers are not Necessarily Good Leaders."

Tips for Effective Leadership - Don’t Have Goals and Objectives
by Wolf Rinke

We’ve all heard how important it is to set goals and objectives. I disagree. Instead, I recommend that you establish one HOG --- a Humongous Overarching Goal --- that drives employees' energies in laser-like fashion in a singular direction for the next 10-30 years, and makes your vision come alive.

Desperate Money Never Wins
by Mariette Edwards

Have you ever taken on a client or a job that you just knew wasn't right for you but you really needed the money? If you find yourself in such a situation, look for the opportunity to create something better now and in the future.

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

The Credibility Crisis, Fear and Respect, Talking and Communicating, and On the Same Page. Today’s the day!

Manager's Corner - Lunch, Legacy and Leverage
by Liz Weber

Three focused, concise ideas on how to take your people and organization to the next level of success - "Get Your Lunch and Succeed;" "What's your Legacy?" and "Increase Your Power; Give it Away."

Real Time Management
by Byron Kalies

Time management training is awful. Time logging, hints for dealing with telephone calls, email tips - nothing seems to work. You can't even begin to look at taking anything away from a time management course until you've considered your own mortality.

Winners' Wisdom
by Jim Stovall

The Blink of an Eye, Circling the Wagons, Hiring and Firing Yourself and The World of Work. Today’s the day!

The Power of Personal Regeneration
by Robin S. Sharma

Every day of our lives presents with opportunities to experience, learn and grow. The wise person recognizes this and commits himself to the inner work required to constantly expand ones personal frontiers.

Becoming the CEO of ... Yourself
by Pamela Ruebusch

When you can show that you are in control, empowered and responsible in your job, you will be given the opportunity to make a difference.

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