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The Unstoppable Trio:  How Determination, Perseverance and Self-Confidence...

Word Count: 2,308Estimated Read Time: 9 Min. Perseverance History is littered with moments of seemingly “impossible” tasks made possible…  undertakings destined to remain beyond the realm of the...

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The Unstoppable Trio:  How Determination, Perseverance and Self-Confidence...

Word Count: 1,550Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. Self-Confidence There are many ingredients in the recipe for success: talent, hard work, support system, intelligence, charisma, a little bit of luck....

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How To Maximize Sales No Matter What You Are Selling, Part 1

Word Count: 1,743Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. Don’t Fall for ‘Product Delusion’ Every business is selling something… a product or service (or both).  And how that brand speaks to consumers about their...

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How To Maximize Sales No Matter What You Are Selling, Part 2

Word Count: 1,700Estimated Read Time: 6 ½ Min. Clarify Messaging to get to the Essence Pick a product or service and compare their messaging.   Quality.  Speed.  Service.  Blah Blah Blah.  It often...

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Which Matters More:  Improving the Product/Service or Building Up the Brand,...

Word Count: 1,837Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. Ask any Chief Marketing Officer and they will argue vehemently that for a business to maximize profits and retain customers, it must build a brand that...

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Which Matters More:  Improving the Product/Service or Building Up the Brand,...

Word Count: 1,417Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ Min. The lifeblood of any business lies in its ability to attract and retain customers.  This is not only how it stays alive, but how it grows.  But how to do...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 1

Word Count: 1,351Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ Min. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, technical skills and a high IQ are no longer the sole guarantees of success.  Artificial intelligence...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 2

Word Count: 1,418Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ Min. Self-Awareness:  The Bedrock of All EI Skills In today’s AI-emerging business world, EI is sure to become more valuable than IQ.  This is because AI...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 3

How Empathy is a Leadership Superpower Word Count: 1,793Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. Understanding and responding to human emotions is key in business.  It’s essential for building trust, fostering...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 4

Word Count: 1,766 Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. Why Social Skills are Increasingly Important in the Age of AI ‘Social skills’ is one of those fluff terms that is often secretly viewed as unnecessary for...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 5

Word Count: 1,939 Estimated Read Time: 8 Min. Increasing the Least Liked Aspect of EI:  Self-Control Emotional intelligence (EI) is an increasingly important competence because it helps us respond to...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 6

Word Count: 1,724 Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. Motivation: What Pushes You For the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at the multi-faceted concept of Emotional Intelligence.  While we use IQ to define...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Most Valuable Currency in Business, Part 7

Word Count: 1,451Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. The Curiousness of Curiosity In looking at the multi-faceted concept of Emotional Intelligence for the last two months, we’ve been considering how it...

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Diagnosing and Fixing Challenges at Work, Part 1

Stop Symptom-Chasing Every business faces problems, challenges and glitches at one time or another.  No sooner is one issue solved than another pops up like a game of whack-a-mole.  Drawing from...

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Diagnosing and Fixing Challenges at Work, Part 2

Word Count: 1,819Estimated Read Time: 7 ½ Min. When Unsolved Problems Lead To Even Bigger Problems Business experts and management pundits are quick to offer a step-by-step process for identifying the...

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Diagnosing and Fixing Challenges at Work, Part 3

Word Count: 1,933Estimated Read Time: 7 ½ Min. Making Changes vs Solving Problems Last week, we looked at the issues facing Boeing as a case study in how to drill down to the root cause of a problem...

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To Succeed, Do As the Billionaires Do, Part 1

Word Count: 1,706Estimated Read Time: 6 ½ Min. Everyone is trying to ‘get ahead.’  Never before in the history of the world has humanity been so deeply focused on their success.  Baby Boomers believed...

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To Succeed, Do as the Billionaires Do, Part 2

Word Count: 1,843Estimated Read Time: 7 ½ Min. From Warren Buffet to Jeff Bezos and from Michael Bloomberg to Sergey Brin, when billionaires speak, people listen. Rightly so.  These are individuals...

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To Succeed, Do as the Billionaires Do, Part 3

Word Count: 1,767Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery.  But perhaps even more flattering is having someone emulate rather than imitate.  Here’s why.  While...

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To Succeed, Do as the Billionaires Do, Part 4

Word Count: 1,564Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. Entrepreneurs who share their business advice have each had their own unique journey to building a successful business. They’re all different. Some come...

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