Month: November 2009

The Power of Parting

You’re Fired!. — Donald Trump on “The Apprentice” We’ve all been there – the pit in the stomach, the endless excuses, the countless delays. In our business lives, as well as personal, we often know we’d be better off if we could simply end a key, but troublesome, relationship. It’s time to say goodbye, but …

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Power of the Pause – Taking a Break for Success

Don’t just do something, sit there! – Dr. Edward Frost Ever since a mid-day meal became a “power lunch” and a week off morphed into a “working vacation,” we seem frantically driven to pack more into every waking, and sometimes non-waking, moment. We eat breakfast over our computers and text message over lunch. We listen …

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Lunch and Learn: On-line, Off-line Marketing

I teamed up with Social Media/Web Designer, Judi Knight of New Tricks to do an On-line, Off-Line Marketing Lunch and Learn. We had a wonderful group, and it was great to see people busily making new business contacts and actually getting new referrals.  All that plus a tasty, fun lunch.  Here are the slide presentations. …

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The Power of the Positive Sandwich, Delivering Difficult Discussion

“Life is like a sandwich – the more you add to it, the better it becomes.” ~Author Unknown Politicians know it. Salespeople really know it. Even new parents know it, or quickly learn it. What is “it?” To deliver something distasteful, wrap it up in something good! Martin Luther King, perhaps one of our era’s …

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X+Y+Z=The Entrepreneur Formula

Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker For the last decade, I have counseled entrepreneurs in their personal and professional lives, helping them build businesses and maintain happiness and fulfillment. Being an entrepreneur myself, who built and sold a catering …

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