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If you’re an entrepreneur or senior executive of a small or medium-sized business, hopefully you’re regularly reading Inc. Magazine. If not, you should be. I rarely find an issue where I’m not tearing out a few articles to file. And that holds true for this month’s edition, which marks their 30th anniversary. However, my favorite [...]

Ever wonder what you ought to focus your time and attention on? With so many things on your plate, don’t you often wonder, “Where should I start?” But more importantly, as the point person for your company, it’s even more critical that you focus your attention on those activities that have the highest probability of [...]

Do you often feel frustrated at the end of the day–like you’ve worked hard, long and fast–and yet it still doesn’t feel like you’ve done enough? Believe it or not, one of the main culprits of that feeling is probably your ability to multi-task! In other words, one of the skills that you acquired as [...]

Are there some things in your life or business that you’d like to see changed–but haven’t? Or do you have any initiatives that never seem to get off the ground? Or, any employees that just never seem to get it? Well, what if I told you there was one simple phrase that could change all [...]

Chances are pretty high that you’re thinking, “Are you nuts? How can someone be grateful for a downturn? Being grateful for an upturn makes sense. But for a downturn–that’s just plain ridiculous.” But it’s not. Why? Because downturns, like every other obstacle, always demonstrate at least one thing–they always expose weakness. And for that, you [...]

As you're coming to the end of this third quarter, have you noticed how easy it is to start checking out? Chances are that many of the goals you set last fall for this year are in many cases unattainable. Like most of us, you probably didn't anticipate how bad or how long the downturn [...]

Regardless of which political party you’re in, or which presidential election you pick out of the past fifty years, the winner has almost always been the most likable of the two candidates (for example, Kennedy over Nixon, Carter over Ford, Reagan over Carter, Bush I over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush I, Bush II over Gore, [...]

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I was meeting with a client this week when a typical problem arose, "How can we do all this, when we’re already overloaded?" Sound familiar? Well, the answer is, "You can’t . . . if you keep operating the way you are." In other words, nothing changes unless something changes. Or to put it another [...]

I don’t know if you’re a tennis fan, but this past Sunday’s achievement by Roger Federer at the US Open ought to WOW you. It was his tenth STRAIGHT grand slam final (no one else has even come close to that). It was his 12th grand slam title in total (putting him at number two [...]