Business Motivation – Aug. 3, 2009
YOU MUST PAY A PRICE FOR SUCCESS. Whatever you want in life, you must give up something to get it. The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice required of you. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, and a price you’ll pay for just leaving things as they are. Nothing worthwhile comes easily to anyone. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. Don’t let the fear of change stop you from pursuing your dreams. There is no success at bargain basement prices. The highway to success is a toll road.
Leadership and Crisis
Leadership and Crisis By David Byrd, President, LMI Pick up any newspaper today and you will read about economic crisis. Turn your TV to any news broadcast, and you will hear about economic crisis. I was with a group of business executives yesterday, and we talked about economic crisis. We are being overwhelmed with negative news and fearful conversation regarding the issues of the current, global economic crisis. But with all the bombardment of negative news and fearful conversations leaders must still lead. How do we do that? During times of crisis a leader’s greatest enemy is fear. During crisis most people respond from the emotion of fear. This is a natural response that can be traced back to our ancestral roots. The emotion of fear was designed to protect us from any imposing dangers. However, many people have developed the habit of responding to any crisis situation form the emotion of fear, and that poses three significant problems for leaders: Fear paralyzes productive actions. Fear leads to negative attitudes which, in turn, get in the way of positive, productive actions. Fear attracts and supports failure. Negative attitudes find comfort in failure. They offer an instant and comfortable excuse to quit, point blame, or procrastinate. Fear eliminates ownership of possible solutions. Fear destroys creative energy. Fear causes us to think of ourselves as victims and victims have no solutions. How do effective leaders respond to the natural, human emotion of fear? The effective leader knows that there are only two options in responding to crisis…Positive Actions or Negative Beliefs! The leaders who respond with negative beliefs nullify their leadership position by joining the ranks of the fearful. When a leader responds to crisis from the emotion of fear, his or her position as leader is no longer effective. The leader…
Business Motivation – July 31, 2009
You Always Have A Choice. You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose. You steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come. You hold the tiller. You can decide to alter the course of your life at any time. No one can ever take that away from you. You can decide what you want and go after it. It’s always your next move. Choose to live free from fear. Choose to have a great weekend. === Reprinted with permission Sam Maitz Director of Marketing Technology Leadership Management® International, Inc. For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Motivation- July 29, 2009
“To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.” — Paul Zane Pilzer: Economist, Entrepreneur, and Author === For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Motivation – July 27, 2009
“When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There’s no higher calling.” — Paul Zane Pilzer: Economist, Entrepreneur, and Author === For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Communication
Communication: The Essential Connection By Paul J. Meyer Business success depends on the ability to communicate more than ever before with the continuous acceleration of technology and international competition. Effective business communication can make the difference between mediocrity and market leadership. And skillful communication can even make the difference between being employed and not being employed! More than for any other reason, people lose their jobs because of inability to get along with other people. Communication is intricately woven throughout effective and satisfying interpersonal relationships; and relationships are the basis of success in the business world as well as in the home and with friends. Achieving long-term business goals always requires covering the basics: careful planning, accurate research and preparation, getting the right people together, and obtaining necessary financial and technological resources. Effective communication provides the positive relationships and mutual understanding that are essential for successfully covering these basics; without communication, any project and its potential for future returns evaporate. Businesspeople daily communicate their goals, concerns, performance feedback, and appreciation to those they work with and for. Skillful communication creates the human synergy that turns ideas into profitable ventures. Communication is the essential human connection — understanding others and being understood. As the essential human connection, skillful communication enables you to meet professional and personal goals. It is the conduit for mutual understanding and change. Without communication, you accomplish only what you can do alone, which inevitably is only a fraction of what you can do in joint effort with others. Communication – the human connection – is the key to career and personal success. Rewards of Successful Communication Good communicators go above and beyond ordinary means and methods of sending messages; they express a unique human touch in their communication. Human behavior experts have long said the most universal…
Business Motivation – July 24, 2009
You Can Make Up Your Mind To Be Anything. You’re special and unique among all the creatures on the planet earth. You’ve been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures inside your mind and to find them automatically printed in the outer world of your environment. You’ll gradually grow into any condition you desire, provided you first make yourself in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to that condition. Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to your success. All your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them. === Reprinted with permission Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology Leadership Management® International, Inc. For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Motivation – July 22, 2009
You Can Achieve Anything You Imagine. Your imagination is your mental workshop where all your plans are fashioned. Visualize your goals and you’ll get your subconscious to work toward making your mental pictures come true. Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved your goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your destination. Olympic medalists use the art of mental rehearsal or visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen. Decide what you want out of your life. Sense it before you have it. See it, feel it, taste it, smell it and imagine the emotions associated with the attainment of your goal. Pre-live it in your mind before you have it. Your vision will become a powerful driving force in your life. See the things you want as already yours, and one day, they will be yours. === Reprinted with permission Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology Leadership Management® International, Inc. For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Motivation – July 20, 2009
Success Is Waiting For You. There are no age limits on when you can transform your life. Change is possible at any time. It is essential if you want to grow. You have control over your life. Success or failure is up to you. You control how lucky you are. You create your wealth with your effort. The doubts you’ll experience along the way are part of life. Make a plan to attain your success and stick to it. Your life is a marathon, not a short sprint. Accept total responsibility for your actions and remove “QUIT” from your vocabulary. Decide you want success and it can be yours. Success is always your choice. === Reprinted with permission Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology Leadership Management® International, Inc. For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
Business Motivation – July 17, 2009
Love What You Do, Or Do Something Else. You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing. No one has ever succeeded in a line of endeavor which they did not like. Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you’re in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. It’s better to be a failure in something you love, than attempting to be a success in something you don’t. Don’t set compensation as a goal. Find the work you love, and the compensation will follow. The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. === Reprinted with permission Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology Leadership Management® International, Inc. For more information about Strategic Essentials small business training and education programs or our coaching and consultation services please call 775.826.8282 today! Strategic Essentials primarily serves business owners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, supervisors and decision makers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows and surrounding communities. Strategic Essentials is a Managing Partner for Leadership Management International.
